Radiation safety audit of a high volume Nuclear Medicine Department

Ashish Kumar Jha; Abhijith Mohan Singh; Bhakti Shetye; Sneha Shah; Archi Agrawal; Nilendu Chandrakant Purandare; Priya Monteiro; Venkatesh Rangarajan

doi:10.4103/0972-3919.142625

Radiation safety audit of a high volume Nuclear Medicine Department

Ashish Kumar Jha, Abhijith Mohan Singh, Bhakti Shetye, Sneha Shah, Archi Agrawal, Nilendu Chandrakant Purandare, Priya Monteiro, Venkatesh Rangarajan^*

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Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Professional radiation exposure cannot be avoided in nuclear medicine practices. It can only be minimized up to some extent by implementing good work practices.

AIM AND OBJECTIVES: The aim of our study was to audit the professional radiation exposure and exposure rate of radiation worker working in and around Department of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, Tata Memorial Hospital.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: We calculated the total number of nuclear medicine and positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) procedures performed in our department and the radiation exposure to the radiation professionals from year 2009 to 2012.

RESULTS: We performed an average of 6478 PET/CT scans and 3856 nuclear medicine scans/year from January 2009 to December 2012. The average annual whole body radiation exposure to nuclear medicine physician, technologist and nursing staff are 1.74 mSv, 2.93 mSv and 4.03 mSv respectively.

CONCLUSION: Efficient management and deployment of personnel is of utmost importance to optimize radiation exposure in a high volume nuclear medicine setup in order to work without anxiety of high radiation exposure.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	227-34
Number of pages	8
Journal	Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine
Volume	29
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.142625
Publication status	Published - Oct 2014
Externally published	Yes

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