The use of extremity dosemeters in a hospital environment

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 190-195

  Vanhavere, Filip ^a   Berus, D ^b   Buls, N ^b   Covens, P ^b  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM 51; FLUORINE 18; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GALLIUM 67; IODINE 131; MOLYBDENUM 99; PHOSPHORUS 32; RHENIUM; SAMARIUM 153; TECHNETIUM 99M; TITANIUM; YTTRIUM 90;

BELGIUM; BODY DISTRIBUTION; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARDIOLOGY; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; FOREHEAD; HAND; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LEG; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PERSONNEL RADIATION MONITORING; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOLOGIST; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY;

BELGIUM; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIBRATION; FOREHEAD; HAND; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LEG; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 33745685931     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl017     Document Type: Review

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