Background: This study aimed to investigate dose area product (DAP), effective dose, and radiation risk in newborn infants hospitalized in neonatal intensive care units in Isfahan and Kashan. Materials and Methods: During a period of six months, DAP for chest X-ray examinations for newborn infants hospitalized in NICUs of five special hospitals including Beheshti (in Kashan), Al-Zahra, Imam Hos...

According to EU directive 97/43/Euratom all member states must estimate doses to the public from diagnostic radiology. In Denmark the National Institute of Radiation Hygiene (NIRH) is about to finish a project with the purpose of estimating the collective dose in Denmark from diagnostic radiology. In this paper methods, problems and preliminary results will be presented. Patient doses were obta...

Basic radiological factors of the Chernobyl accident are reviewed such as radioactivity discharge, the size of contaminated area, radiation dose, radiation risk assessment etc. Roughly estimating, 50-60 % of I and 30-50 % of Cs in the reactor core were released into the environment, which correspond to 40-50 MCi and 2-4 MCi, respectively, as the activities at the time of the accident. The total...

Background: With the introduction of computed tomography in diagnostic radiology a new and fundamentally different imaging modality has become available. Meanwhile, it is clear that the absorbed doses by the patients during CT were relatively high in comparison with those of other diagnostic radiology techniques. The aim of this survey was to determine the average absorbed dose in Yazd provin...

Background: Annual patient effective dose equivalent can be considered as a quantitative physical parameter describing the activities performed in each nuclear medicine department. Annual staff dose equivalent could be also considered as a parameter describing the amount of radiation risk for performing the activities. We calculated the staff to patient dose equivalent ratio to be used as a phy...