The purpose of this paper is to review basic radiation biology and associated terminology to impart a better understanding of the importance of basic concepts of ionizing radiation interactions with living tissue. As health care workers in a field that utilizes ionizing radiation, nuclear medicine technologists are concerned about the possible acute and chronic effects of occupational radiation...

establishing and operating private radio and television and its possible activity beside state radio and television is the selective method of administering radio and television in many countries worldwide. in legal system of iran, state run radio and television in article 44 of the constitution and interpretation of guardian council of mentioned article, establishing private radio and televisi...

Patients receiving diagnostic doses of radiopharmaceuticals become a source of contamination and exposure for those who come in contact with them, such as nuclear medicine technologists, relatives and nurses. Therefore, the measurement of external radiation dose from these patients is necessary. In this study, the dose rates at distances of 10, 50 and 100cm from 70 patients who received d...

The purpose of this article is to address common occupational hazards and safety concerns of nuclear medicine technologists. There are many possible occupational hazards, but this review is intended to concentrate on common hazards and safety concerns. These include radiation safety issues and concerns about the possibility of developing latent diseases, such as eye cataracts or cancer; pregnan...

R p t y l d O g f a s s m o t C C p s t C d r K r he 9th annual meeting of the Society for Cardiovascular agnetic Resonance (SCMR) was held from January 20– 2, 2006 under sunny skies in Miami, Florida. A wellttended introductory physician course was held prior to the tart of the meeting with a concurrent 3-day technologists eeting. Over 800 physicians, scientists, trainees, nurses, nd technolog...

This position paper explores two socio-technical gaps that hamper effective synergy between human and machine intelligence as well as data-intensive and cognitively complex sense making and decision making in early U.S. escience projects. Based on qualitative methods guided by grounded theory and 70 interviews, we identify limiting constraints at the levels of scientists, technologists, science...

OBJECTIVES Diagnostic medical radiation workers in Korea have been officially monitored for their occupational radiation doses since 1996. The purpose of this study was to design models for reconstructing unknown individual radiation doses to which diagnostic radiation technologists were exposed before 1996. METHODS Radiation dose reconstruction models were developed by using cross-sectional ...

The PET procedure involves the administration of short-lived positron emitting radioisotopes to the body. The choice of PET as diagnostic method is increasing and the inclusion of PET systems as part of an imaging center is becoming more widespread. In our PET center, the number of clinical 18F-FDG PET scans has increased almost to 5000 studies per year. The increasing demand of PET studies for...

The whole-body and hand radiation doses to our technical staff were retrospectively compared for three distinct 4-mo periods when either 201TI or 99mTc-sestamibi were exclusively used for stress myocardial perfusion imaging. During the initial 4-mo period when 99mTc-sestamibi replaced 201TI, the mean whole-body film badge readings increased from 100 to 450 microSv/mo (p < 0.001) for nuclear med...

BACKGROUND There is a growing interest in the objective assessment of health related outcomes using technology providing quality measurements to be applied not only in daily clinical practice, but also in scientific research. Differences in the understandings of the condition and the terminology used between people with Parkinson's (PwPs), clinicians and technical developers may influence the p...