Journal article
Estimating brain radiation dose to the main operator in interventional radiology
Journal of radiological protection, Vol.40(4), pp.1170-1177
12/01/2020
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6498/ab9160
PMID: 32380495
Abstract
The aim of this study was to estimate brain radiation dose to the main operator during interventional radiology procedures. Occupational brain doses from 19 interventional procedures were measured using thermoluminiscent dosimeters and an anthropomorphic RANDO woman phantom simulating a main operator. Results show that, interventional radiologists may receive minimum and maximum brain doses per procedure of 0.01 mGy (left temporal cortex) and 0.08 mGy (temporal lobe cortex), respectively. A radiologist who works without movable shielding devices during procedures and has a typical workload (for example 500 procedures per year), might exceed the new dose threshold of 0.5 Gy for circulatory disease in the brain working 12.6 years of his career.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Estimating brain radiation dose to the main operator in interventional radiology
- Creators
- William Jaramillo Garzón - Pedagogical and Technological University of ColombiaGustavo Andrade - Hospital da RestauraçãoVinicius Saito Monteiro de Barros - Universidade Federal de PernambucoLilian Ribeiro Lilian Torres - Universidade Federal de PernambucoHelen Jamil Khoury - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of radiological protection, Vol.40(4), pp.1170-1177
- DOI
- 10.1088/1361-6498/ab9160
- PMID
- 32380495
- ISSN
- 0952-4746
- eISSN
- 1361-6498
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/2020
- Academic Unit
- Radiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984738105202771
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