Occupational radiation exposure from the space environment may result in degenerative tissue diseases (non-cancer or non-CNS) such as cardiac, circulatory, or digestive diseases, as well as cataracts, although the mechanisms and the magnitude of influence of radiation leading to these diseases are not well characterized. Radiation and synergistic effects of radiation cause increased DNA strand ...

Introduction: Radiation exposure during radiological examination is a health concern, of which radiology professionals should be cognizant. We sought to evaluate the radiation protection knowledge, attitudes, and practice (KAP) amongst radiology staff of hospitals across 10 provinces of Iran. Materials and Methods: For evaluating the level of radiation protection KAP, 553 radiology staff were e...

introduction: occupational exposure to ionizing radiation due to medical activities (both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures) has increased sharply in recent years. among the occupationally exposed workers in these fields, those most affected by this increased exposure to ionizing radiation are nuclear medicine workers. in this study, annual average effective dose, annual collective effectiv...

Objective: to identify the participation of a multi-professional healthcare team in a Radiation Protection Program, and to describe the implementation of this program by the staff working in the service. Method: qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research, performed through a semi-structured interview with professionals of the radiology service of a public hospital in the South of Brazil....

The data summarized in this section are taken mainly from the 2000 Report of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), and generally refer to occupational exposures assessed to have been experienced during the earlyand mid-1990s [1]. Occupational exposures in the United Kingdom from 1998 to 2003 have been reviewed recently by the Radiation Protection ...

BACKGROUND Radiation, which is used extensively to diagnose and treat human diseases, poses an occupational health risk for the concerned health workers. Personal dosimetry is an important tool to monitor occupational radiation exposures. OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to reveal and to describe the situation of occupational radiation exposure monitoring among staffs in different health ca...

Operator radiation exposure is an important occupational hazard compounded over the course of an interventional radiologist's career. This study compared operator radiation dose to the eye and head for different positions around the patient. Compared with cases performed from the femoral region, exposures were 1.8 times higher at the side, and 1.6 times higher at the head, using conventional ap...

The healthcare staff in interventional fluoroscopy room are exposed to the scattered-radiation from patient during procedures. Excessive occupational radiation exposures their eyes associated with formation of radiation-induced cataracts. Therefore, recommendations set-up reduce occupation eye exposure but often overlooked. Thus, there is a need incorporate additional value into recommendations...

Introduction: Most of people are exposed to ionizing radiation sources during their lifetime including background, cosmic or man-made beams like radiation used in nuclear medicine and radiology. Due to unavoidable use of ionizing radiation in diagnosis and treatment of diseases, designing and correct implementation of radiation protection principles in order to reducing its har...