Measurement of Effective Dose Equivalents around Patients Administered the Radiopharmaceutical -201TlCl.

Effective dose equivalents to patients undergoing cerebral angiography.

PURPOSE To determine values of the effective dose equivalent, HE, for patients undergoing diagnostic cerebral angiography and compare these values with radiation doses received by patients undergoing other diagnostic examinations of the head. METHODS The radiographic techniques for ten patients undergoing cerebral angiography were recorded and used to obtain the product of the entrance skin d...

International guidelines for pediatric radiopharmaceutical administered activities.

Dose equivalents for second-generation antipsychotics: the minimum effective dose method.

BACKGROUND Clinicians need to know the right antipsychotic dose for optimized treatment, and the concept of dose equivalence is important for many clinical and scientific purposes. METHODS We refined a method presented in 2003, which was based on the minimum effective doses found in fixed-dose studies. We operationalized the selection process, updated the original findings, and expanded them ...

Measurement of Entrance Skin Dose and Effective Dose in The most Common Diagnostic radiology Examinations in Jiroft, Iran

Introduction: Medical uses of radiation have grown very rapidly over in the past two decades, medical uses represent the largest source of exposure to people, The most important methods in medical diagnosis are the useses of diagnostic radiology exams. Although the use of these methods is very beneficial for the treatment of patients, but ionizing radiation produces ion pairs, ...

Measurement of dose equivalent of hand and eye of a nuclear medicine center technician during preparation of radiopharmaceutical containing 99mTc

Due to gamma irradiation by radioisotopes use for therapy and diagnostics proposes such as 99mTc, workers of nuclear medicine centers receives dose. Value of the dose equivalent of workers is determined using personnel dosimeters. Preparation, administration and injection of radiopharmaceutical are perfumed by technician so, the hand of technician received dose. In this paper the value of dose ...