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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on August 23, 2008
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2008 131(1):62-66; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncn229
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An overview of the use of extremity dosemeters in some European countries for medical applications

L. Donadille1,*, E. Carinou2, M. Ginjaume3, J. Jankowski4, A. Rimpler5, M. Sans Merce6 and F. Vanhavere7

1 Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), BP 17, 92262 Fontenay-aux-Roses Cedex, France
2 Greek Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC), Ag. Paraskevi, Attiki, Greece
3 Institut de Tècniques Energètiques, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
4 Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM), St Teresa Street 8, 90-950 Lodz, Poland
5 Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS), Köpenicker Allee 120-130, 10312 Berlin, Germany
6 Institut Universitaire de Radiophysique Appliquée (IRA), rue du Grand Pré 1, 1007 Lausanne, Switzerland
7 Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK-CEN), Boeretang 200, 2400 Mol, Belgium

* Corresponding author: laurent.donadille{at}irsn.fr

Some medical applications are associated with high doses to the extremities of the staff exposed to ionising radiation. At workplaces in nuclear medicine, interventional radiology, interventional cardiology and brachytherapy, extremities can be the limiting organs as far as regulatory dose limits for workers are concerned. However, although the need for routine extremity monitoring is clear for these applications, no data about the status of routine extremity monitoring reported by different countries was collected and analysed so far, at least at a European level. In this article, data collected from seven European countries are presented. They are compared with extremity doses extracted from dedicated studies published in the literature which were reviewed in a previous publication. The analysis shows that dedicated studies lead to extremity doses significantly higher than the reported doses, suggesting that either the most exposed workers are not monitored, or the dosemeters are not routinely worn or not worn at appropriate positions.


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