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Volume 20 No 8 (2022)
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Radiation doses Received by Nuclear Medicine Workers with 18F-FDG PET/CT
Ahmed Ali Wabdan
Abstract
In addition to the physical properties of positron emissions, the growing use of hybrid systems like PET/CT for
diagnostic purposes poses a significant health danger to radiation workers. Using deep equivalent dose measurements
from thermos-luminescent dosimeters (TLDs) and dose per exam measurements from an electronic pocket dosimeter
throughout the study, this research aimed to evaluate the occupational exposure of nuclear medicine workers with
18F-FDG. Over six months, the technologist, medical physicist, and nurse received (Mean±SD) whole-body radiation
doses of (3.15±0.16, 2.4±0.14 and 1.73±0.08) mSv, respectively, while the (Mean±SD) equivalent dose per e
Keywords
Positron Emission, Equivalent Dose, TLDs.
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