Extremity dosimetry for radiation workers handling unsealed radionuclides in nuclear medicine departments in India

Health Physics

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 112-118

  Tandon, Pankaj ^a   Venkatesh, Meera ^a   Bhatt, B C ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Dosimetry, personnel; Exposure, occupational; Nuclear medicine; Radioisotope

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOISOTOPE; SAMARIUM 153; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INDIA; LIMB; MONITORING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SCINTIGRAPHY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EXTREMITIES; FINGERS; HUMANS; INDIA; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MINIATURIZATION; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY;

EID: 33846215124     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000236787.25865.fb     Document Type: Article

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