Evaluation of equivalent dose to working staff with oxygen-15-water in positron emission tomographic studies

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 463-468

  Wu, T H ^c   Liu, R S ^b   Chong, N S ^a   Tsai, C S ^b   Lee, J S ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c YUANPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

15O water; Dose evaluation; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; DOSIMETRY; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; OXYGEN; PERSONNEL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER;

DOSE EVALUATION;

NUCLEAR MEDICINE;

OXYGEN 15;

ARTICLE; HAND; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICIAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SHIELD; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER;

HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OXYGEN RADIOISOTOPES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; WATER;

EID: 0034666809     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(99)00281-X     Document Type: Article

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