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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on May 30, 2006
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/ncl049
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org
Received January 17, 2006
Revised March 20, 2006
Accepted March 27, 2006

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PAPER

POPULATION EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE DOSE FROM NUCLEAR MEDICINE EXAMINATION IN CUBA

O. Brígido Flores 1 *, A. Barreras Caballero 2, O. Lasserra Sánchez 2, A. Montalván Estrada 1, and J. Hernández García 2

1 Environmental Engineering Centre of Camagüey, Department of Applied Nuclear Techniques, Avenue Finlay km 2.5 Esquina Circunvalación, Rpto. Puerto Príncipe, Camagüey, Cuba
2 Oncological Hospital ‘Maria Curie’, Camagüey, Cuba, Madam Curie s/n Esquina Carretera Central Oeste, Camagüey, Cuba

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
O. Brígido Flores, E-mail: o.brigido{at}ciac.cmw.inf.cu


  Abstract

In an attempt to estimate the effective collective dose imparted to the population of Camagüey-Ciego de Avila territory, Cuba, we have made use of the statistics from nuclear medicine examinations given to a population of 1.1 million inhabitants for the years 1995-1999. The average annual frequency of examinations was estimated to be 3.82 per 1000 population. The results show that nuclear medicine techniques of thyroid imaging with 43.73% and thyroid uptake with 43.36% are the main techniques implicated in the relative contribution to the total annual effective collective dose, which averaged 54.43 man Sv for the studied period. Radiation risks for the Camagüey-Ciego de Avila population caused by nuclear medicine examinations in the period studied were calculated: the total number of fatal and non-fatal cancers was 16.33 and the number of serious hereditary disturbance was 3.54 as a result of 21,073 nuclear medicine procedures, corresponding to a total detriment of one case per thousand examinations.


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