The Use of Active Personal Dosemeters in Interventional Workplaces in Hospitals: Comparison between Active and Passive dosemeters worn simultaneously by Medical Staff

(EURADOS) Vanhavere, Filip; Carinou, Elefteria; Clairand, Isabelle; Ciraj Bjelac, Olivera; De Monte, Francesca; Domienik, Joanna; Ferrari, Paolo; Ginjaume, Merce; Hršak, Hrvoje; Hupe, Oliver; Knežević, Željka; O’connor, Una; Merce Sans, Marta; Sarmento, Sandra; Savary, A; Siiskonen, Teemu (2019) The Use of Active Personal Dosemeters in Interventional Workplaces in Hospitals: Comparison between Active and Passive dosemeters worn simultaneously by Medical Staff. Radiation Protection Dosimetry . ISSN 0144-8420

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Abstract

Medical staff in interventional procedures are among the professionals with the highest occupational doses. Appropriate dosimetric follow up is very important, so that the doses can be kept as low as possible. Active personal dosemeters (APDs) can help in optimizing the exposure during the interventional procedures. However, there can be problems when using APDs during interventional procedures, due to the specific energy and angular distribution of the radiation field, and because of the pulsed nature of the radiation. Many parameters influence the occupational exposure and the scattered radiation around the patient. These include, among others, the type of interventional procedure, personal habits and working technques, protection tools used and X-ray field characteristics. In this paper, we describe the results of an experiment of EURADOS WG12. We compare the results from 3 types of APDs with a passive personal dosimetry system while being used in real clinical environment by the interventional staff. The results show that there is a large spread in the ratios of the passive and active devices. Not all results can be explained by laboratory experiments, showing that there are many parameters that influence the response of these devices.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Active personal dosimeters; Interventional pprocedures; TLD
Subjects:	NATURAL SCIENCES > Physics NATURAL SCIENCES > Interdisciplinary Natural Sciences > Radiation Science
Divisions:	Division of Materials Chemistry
Depositing User:	Željka Knežević Medija
Date Deposited:	14 May 2020 09:15
URI:	http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/5803
DOI:	10.1093/rpd/ncz253

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