TY - JOUR AU - Poonak, Kanokon AU - Uaratanawong, Somsri PY - 2018/12/28 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Radiation dose to nurses per nuclear medicine examination JF - The Thai Journal of Radiological Technology JA - Thai J Rad Tech VL - 43 IS - 1 SE - Original articles DO - UR - https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/tjrt/article/view/246332 SP - 44-47 AB - <p>The aim of this study was to estimate radiation doses per study received by nuclear medicine nurses. This study used digital pocket dosimeters to measure the radiation doses received by nurses during the performance of their general nuclear procedures such as; bone scan, multi-gated blood pool scan (MUGA scan), lymphatic scan, parathyroid scan, thyroid scan, myocardial perfusion scan and renal scan. The radiation dose received by each nurse was read directly from the dosimeter and recorded at the end of each procedure. The mean±SD effective doses from MUGA scan, myocardial perfusion (rest), and myocardial perfusion(stress) scans were 2.46±0.66 µSv, 1.5±0.35 µSv, 5.5±0.7µSv respectively, and it could not be detected from other scans. The radiation dose received by nurse working in nuclear medicine was 140.86 µSv/year which was within the occupational dose limit from International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) recommendations.</p> ER -