Personal dose monitoring in hospitals: Global assessment, critical applications and future needs

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 250-259

  Covens, P ^a   Berus, D ^a   Buls, N ^a   Clerinx, P ^a   Vanhavere, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM 51; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GALLIUM 67; IODINE 123; MOLYBDENUM 99; RADIOISOTOPE; TECHNETIUM 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ALGORITHM; BRACHYTHERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYCLOTRON; DOSIMETRY; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PERSONAL MONITORING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIOTHERAPY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WORKPLACE;

BELGIUM; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 37449006502     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm418     Document Type: Conference Paper

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