Radiation dosimetry has the purpose of quantifying dose received by occupationally exposed individual. The device used in this process is called a dosimeter, dosimeter can be different situations, for example, to quantify fingers ring model extremity, which focus work. In Brazil, we still do not have standards calibration extremity dosimeters, therefore, work, CASEC recommendations were used, a...

Dosimetry system for measuring organ doses of the patients undergoing clinical x-ray examinations was devised by using newly developed photodiode dosimeters installed in an anthropomorphic phantom realizing standard Japanese adult body. The system was constructed using pin silicon photodiode dosimeters, 32 and extra two in number, inserted at the positions of tissues or organs assigned in the I...

PURPOSE The objective of this study was to evaluate organ dose and the effective dose to patients undergoing tomosynthesis (TS) and C-arm cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) examinations and to compare the doses to those in multidetector CT (MDCT) scans. METHODS Patient doses were measured with small sized silicon-photodiode dosimeters, 48 in number, which were implanted at various tissue an...

AIMS Complex invasive electrophysiological procedures may result in high cumulative operator radiation exposure. Classical protection with lead aprons results in discomfort while radioprotection is still incomplete. This study evaluated the usefulness of a radiation protection cabin (RPC) that completely surrounds the operator. METHODS AND RESULTS The evaluation was performed independently in...

Purpose: The incident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in 2011 has again raised concerns with the public regarding radiation exposure, especially so in medical workers and patients undergoing treatment involving the use of radiation. Radioisotopes are currently used during sentinel node navigation surgery (SNNS) in operating rooms without radiation monitoring. To re-evaluate the s...

INTRODUCTION For the purpose of dose control of aircrew, many dose measurements have been conducted in airplanes. In IRPA-9, we had reported data mainly obtained with a NaI(Tl) scintillation spectrometer(1). In the present study, however, analyses were done on data of pocket dosimeters (Silicon detectors: Aloka PDM-101 for ionizing components and PDM-303 for neutrons). As the pocket dosimeters ...

Background: The compositions of Ferrous sulphate, Agarose and Xylenol orange dye (FAX) and Ferrous sulphate, Gelatin and Xylenol orange dye (FGX) in solution of distilled water and sulphuric acid are two tissue-equivalent gel dosimeters. Ionizing radiation causes oxidation of Fe2+ ion to Fe3+ ions which diffuse through the gel matrix and blur the image of absorbed dose over a period of hours af...