| ASSESSMENT OF MEDICAL OCCUPATIONAL RADIATION DOSES IN COSTA RICA. | |
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PMID: 21856694 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Participation of the University of Costa Rica (UCR) in activities in an IAEA Regional Project RLA/9/066 through training, equipment and expert missions, has enabled to setting up of a national personal monitoring laboratory. Since 2007, the UCR has been in charge of monitoring around 1800 medical radiation workers of the Social Security System. Individual external doses are measured with thermoluminescent dosemeter using a Harshaw 6600 Plus reader. The service has accreditation with ISO/IEC 17025:2005. Distribution of monitored medical personnel is as follows: 83 % in diagnostic radiology, 6 % in nuclear medicine and 6 % in radiotherapy. Preliminary values for the 75 percentile of annual H(p)(10) in mSv are: radiology 0.37; interventional radiology 0.41; radiotherapy 0.53 and nuclear medicine 1.55. The service provided by the UCR in a steady and reliable way can help to implement actions to limit the doses received by the medical workers and optimise their radiation protection programs. |
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Authors:
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P Mora; M Acuña |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-8-19 |
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Title: Radiation protection dosimetry Volume: - ISSN: 1742-3406 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Aug |
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Created Date: 2011-8-22 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8109958 Medline TA: Radiat Prot Dosimetry Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Atómicas, Nucleares y Moleculares, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica. |
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