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- Title
International project on individual monitoring and radiation exposure levels in interventional cardiology.
- Authors
Padovani, R.; Heron, J. Le; Cruz-Suarez, R.; Duran, A.; Lefaure, C.; Miller, D. L.; Sim, H. K.; Vano, E.; Rehani, M.; Czarwinski, R.
- Abstract
Within the Information System on Occupational Exposure in Medicine, Industry and Research (ISEMIR), a new International Atomic Energy Agency initiative, a Working Group on interventional cardiology, aims to assess staff radiation protection (RP) levels and to propose an international database of occupational exposures. A survey of regulatory bodies (RBs) has provided information at the country level on RP practice in interventional cardiology (IC). Concerning requirements for wearing personal dosemeters, only 57 % of the RB specifies the number and position of dosemeters for staff monitoring. Less than 40 % of the RBs could provide occupational doses. Reported annual median effective dose values (often <0.5 mSv) were lower than expected considering validated data from facility-specific studies, indicating that compliance with continuous individual monitoring is often not achieved in IC. A true assessment of annual personnel doses in IC will never be realised unless a knowledge of monitoring compliance is incorporated into the analysis.
- Subjects
RADIATION exposure; CARDIOLOGY; INTERVENTIONAL radiology; RADIATION protection; INTERNAL medicine
- Publication
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 2011, Vol 144, Issue 1-4, p437
- ISSN
0144-8420
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/rpd/ncq326