Assessment of occupational exposure among Pakistani medical staff during 2007-2011

Khalid Masood; Munir Ahmad; Junaid Zafar; Mumtaz Ul Haq; Afshan Ashfaq; Haroon Zafar

doi:10.1007/s13246-012-0156-y

Assessment of occupational exposure among Pakistani medical staff during 2007-2011

Khalid Masood
, Munir Ahmad
, Junaid Zafar
, Mumtaz Ul Haq
, Afshan Ashfaq
, Haroon Zafar

Medicine

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Abstract

The data analysis of occupationally exposed medical workers in Nuclear Medicine (NM), Radiotherapy (RT) and Diagnostic Radiology (DR) at the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology (INMOL), Pakistan is presented for the time interval (2007-2011). The wholebody exposure doses of the workers were measured by using the Film Badge Dosimetry technique. The annual average effective doses in NM, RT and DR have been found well below the permissible annual limit of 20 mSv (averaged over a period of 5 consecutive years), with no over-exposure detected. This declining trend of annual average effective dose is the consequence of improved radiation protection practices at INMOL during the recent years.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	297-300
Number of pages	4
Journal	Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine
Volume	35
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s13246-012-0156-y
Publication status	Published - Sep 2012

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Dosimetry
Nuclear Medicine
Radiotherapy

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