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European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

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Open Access 01-03-2012 | Editorial

Extremity doses of nuclear medicine personnel: a concern

Authors: Gerrit J. Kemerink, Filip Vanhavere, Ilona Barth, Felix M. Mottaghy

Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Issue 3/2012

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Nearly one in five workers in nuclear medicine is likely to receive more than the legal dose limit for the skin of 500 mSv per year according to a recently completed ORAMED study [1, 2]. ORAMED (Optimization of RAdiation protection of MEDical staff) was a European FP7 project which aimed to develop methodologies for better assessing and reducing the exposure to radiation of personnel working in interventional radiology and cardiology and nuclear medicine. One of the goals of the project was to determine extremity doses of workers in nuclear medicine during the preparation and administration of radiopharmaceuticals. Six countries participated in the study, and large numbers of procedures using ^99mTc (n = 335), ¹⁸F (n = 306) and ⁹⁰Y (n = 127) were monitored. …

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Title: Extremity doses of nuclear medicine personnel: a concern
Authors: Gerrit J. Kemerink
Filip Vanhavere
Ilona Barth
Felix M. Mottaghy
Publication date: 01-03-2012
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging / Issue 3/2012
Print ISSN: 1619-7070
Electronic ISSN: 1619-7089
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-011-1973-z

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