Collar Badge Lens Dose Equivalent Values among United States Physicians Performing Fluoroscopically Guided Interventional Procedures.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To describe the range of occupational badge dose readings and annualized dose records among physicians performing fluoroscopically guided interventional (FGI) procedures using job title information provided by the same 3 major medical institutions in 2009, 2012, and 2015.

Materials and methods

The Radiation Safety Office of selected hospitals was contacted to request assistance with identifying physicians in a large commercial dosimetry database. All entries judged to be uninformative of occupational doses to FGI procedure staff were excluded. Monthly and annualized doses were described with univariate statistics and box-and-whisker plots.

Results

The dosimetry data set of interventional radiology staff contained 169 annual dose records from 77 different physi

SUBMITTER: Borrego D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10388339 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature