Establishment of dose reference levels for nuclear medicine in Greece

Vogiatzi, S.; Kipouros, P.; Chobis, M.

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“…As shown in Table 3, there is quite a distinction between Admi nistrated Activities given by countries except in Brazil which has higher dos e in bone and thy roid scan compared with other countries. The resul ts of Administrated Activities in our studies in (Table 3) and ( Figure 5) regarding the average AA in (MBq) of different types of diagnostic examinations was compared wi th a surv ey from other countries (Vogiatzi, et al, 2011;Bomben et al, 2004;Khoury etal, 1994;Flores et al, 2006;Papadopoulos et al, 1990;Lai et al, 1995;M ettler et-al., 1986;DRL Japan, 2015). Table 4 and Figure 6 shows the range of radioisotope admi nistrated activities and the admi nistrated activity for Sudanese.…”

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2019

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Radiopharmaceuticals are used in nuclear medicine to obtain diagnostic findings based on justified clinical indications according to patient age, weight, and body mass index (BMI) to approve a reasonable low amount of attainable radiation dose without affecting the quality of the image. This study intended to assess patient effective dose in the cardiac, bone, thyroid and renal scan procedures. The current study was conducted at two nuclear medicine departments in Sudan (Al-Neeleen Diagnostic Centre (NDC) and Radiation Isotope Centre Khartoum (RICK)). A total of 193 procedures were performed at the two nuclear medicine departments using technetium 99m Tc isotope. Effective doses were estimated using computer software based on administered activity. The mean patients weight in cardiac, bone, thyroid and renal scans were 73.8±13, 64.8±19.6, 63.8±15.1, and 67.3±28.1 kg, respectively. The mean administered activity and effective dose per procedure were 810±246 and 7.1±2 for cardiac scan, 796.8±58.2 and 4.6±0.31 for bone scan, 195.1±21.2 and 2.6±0.27 for thyroid scan, and 198.6±32.9 MBq and 0.97±0.16 mSv for renal scan, respectively. Because administered activity depends on the procedure type and patient weight, it was 3 times higher in cardiac scan compared to thyroid scan. The results of this study revealed that patient's doses were lower compared to previous published studies.

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“…70 ± 10 Kg) for standard procedure necessary to obtain the optimum diagnostic information as recommended by previous study [6]. The data were collected from six nuclear medicine departments (100% of total Number of nuclear medicine Departments in Sudan).…”

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Establishment of Dose Reference Levels for Nuclear Medicine in Sudan

Ali¹,

Elawad²,

Ibrahim³

2016

OJRad

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In this study, a national survey for establishment of Nuclear Medicine (NM) Dose Reference Levels (DRLs) for adult patients was carried out. The Administrated Activity (AAs) (MBq) was collected from six nuclear medicine departments. Factors influencing the image quality were also observed. The established Sudan National DRLs represent the AA value corresponding to 75th percentile of the AA frequency distribution. Generally, Sudan National DRLs and average AAs are comparable with the papers published in the international literature. All Sudanese DRLs values were found within the international range. While it is noted that the Sudanese DRLs is higher than the values of ARSA except for the MIBI pharmaceuticals that used in both parathyroid and myocardial perfusion scan and for 99m TcDTPA that used for Dynamic Renal scan study the DRLs values were decreased. In compared with UNSCEAR 2008 data, the average dose (MBq) for Sudanese we note that the bone scan falls within the average values while it's lower in all other scans except for parathyroid scan in which the AAAs increase more than twice. When compared to BSS 1996, it showed variation in increased and decreased AAAs. There may be potential for reducing the higher values of AAs, in co-operation with Nuclear Medicine staff.

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“…Many countries have already established DRL for more optimized radiation protection in nuclear medicine procedures [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42]. In Korea, the first DRL values for nuclear medicine imaging studies performed in Korea were reported by MRSRC in 2015 [2][3][4].…”

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Radiation Safety in Nuclear Medicine Procedures

Cho

Kim

Song

2016

Nucl Med Mol Imaging

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Since the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011, radiation safety has become an important issue in nuclear medicine. Many structured guidelines or recommendations of various academic societies or international campaigns demonstrate important issues of radiation safety in nuclear medicine procedures. There are ongoing efforts to fulfill the basic principles of radiation protection in daily nuclear medicine practice. This article reviews important principles of radiation protection in nuclear medicine procedures. Useful references, important issues, future perspectives of the optimization of nuclear medicine procedures, and diagnostic reference level are also discussed.

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Establishment of dose reference levels for nuclear medicine in Greece

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