Beta radiation exposure of medical staff and implications for extremity dose monitoring

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 125, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 335-339

  Rimpler, A ^a   Barth, I ^a  

^a BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; ERBIUM 169; MAGNESIUM; PHOSPHORUS; PHOSPHORUS 32; RHENIUM 186; RHENIUM 188; STRONTIUM 90; YTTRIUM 90;

ARTHRITIS; BALLOON CATHETER; BETA RADIATION; BRACHYTHERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; MEDICAL STAFF; PERSONNEL RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION SHIELD; RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY; SYNOVIORTHESIS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; WORKPLACE; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LIMB; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BETA RAYS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MEDICAL STAFF; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 52249104239     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl384     Document Type: Conference Paper

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