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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on April 29, 2008
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AN OVERVIEW ON EXTREMITY DOSIMETRY IN MEDICAL APPLICATIONS

F. Vanhavere1,*, E. Carinou2, L. Donadille3, M. Ginjaume4, J. Jankowski5, A. Rimpler6 and M. Sans Merce7

1 Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, Boeretang 200, 2400 Mol, Belgium
2 Greek Atomic Energy Commission, Ag. Paraskevi, 15310 Greece
3 Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, BP17, F-92264 Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
4 Institut de Tècniques Energètiques, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
5 Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, St. Teresa Street 8, 90-950 Lodz, Poland
6 Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, 10312 Berlin, Germany
7 Institut Universitaire de Radiophysique Appliquée, Lausanne, Switzerland

* Corresponding author: filip.vanhavere{at}sckcen.be

Some activities of EURADOS Working Group 9 (WG9) are presently funded by the European Commission (CONRAD project). The objective of WG9 is to promote and co-ordinate research activities for the assessment of occupational exposures to staff at workplaces in interventional radiology (IR) and nuclear medicine. For some of these applications, the skin of the fingers is the limiting organ for individual monitoring of external radiation. Therefore, sub-group 1 of WG9 deals with the use of extremity dosemeters in medical radiation fields. The wide variety of radiation field characteristics present in a medical environment together with the difficulties in measuring a local dose that is representative for the maximum skin dose, usually with one single detector, makes it difficult to perform accurate extremity dosimetry. Sub-group 1 worked out a thorough literature review on extremity dosimetry issues in diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine and positron emission tomography, interventional radiology and interventional cardiology and brachytherapy. Some studies showed that the annual dose limits could be exceeded if the required protection measures are not taken, especially in nuclear medicine. The continuous progress in new applications and techniques requires an important effort in radiation protection and training.


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