Simulation of H p (10) and effective dose received by the medical staff in interventional radiology procedures

Interventional radiology and cardiology are widespread employed techniques for diagnosis and
treatment of several pathologies because they avoid the majority of the side-effects associated with
surgical treatments, but are known to increase the radiation exposure to patient and operators. In
recent years many studies treated the exposure of the operators performing cardiological procedures.
The aim of this work is to study the exposure condition of the medical staff in some selected
interventional radiology procedures. The Monte Carlo simulations have been employed with
anthropomorphic mathematical phantoms reproducing the irradiation scenario of the medical staff with
two operators and the patient. A personal dosemeter, put on apron, was modelled for comparison with
measurements performed in hospitals, done with electronic dosemeters, in a reduced number of
interventional radiology practices. Within the limits associated to the use of numerical
anthropomorphic models to mimic a...

Source: Journal of Radiological Protection - August 5, 2019 Category: Physics Authors: P Ferrari, F Becker, Z Jovanovic, S Khan, E Bakhanova, S Principi, D Kristic, L Pierotti, F Mariotti, D Faj, T Turk, D Nikezic and M Bertolini Source Type: research