EURADOS (European Radiation Dosimetry Group) Working Group 12 (WG12) SG1 activities are aimed at occupational radiation protection and individual monitoring in X-ray nuclear medicine practices. In recent years, many studies have been carried out these fields, especially for interventional radiology cardiology workplaces (IC/IR). The complexity of the exposure conditions medical staff during pra...

introduction: radiotherapy is a common treatment modality for patients with head and neck malignancies. as the nose lies within the field of radiotherapy of the head and neck, the olfactory fibers and olfactory receptors may be affected by radiation. the aim of this study was to evaluate changes in olfactory threshold in patients with head and neck malignancies who have received radiation to th...

PURPOSE To demonstrate the feasibility of transperineal polyethylene glycol (PEG) hydrogel insertion into anterior perirectal fat for reducing rectal radiation dose in patients with suboptimal rectal dosimetry after permanent iodine-125 prostate brachytherapy. METHODS AND MATERIALS Five patients with suboptimal rectal dosimetry after iodine-125 seed brachytherapy implant underwent a single tr...

As healthcare delivery systems and technology continue to evolve, the role and responsibilities of the medical dosimetrist need to be delineated. The Scope and Standards of Medical Dosimetry Practice is design to provide a statement of competence in medical practice; define the practice of medical dosimetry; and provide a useful guide for medical dosimetrists and others in evaluating the qualit...

We congratulate the authors for reporting their results. Ege et al. have shared their results that they got from the fluoroscopy device retrospectively. We think that this study method could not prove the exact amount of radiation exposure that impacts the surgical team correctly. The authors compare their study with similar studies (2, 3) that measure radiation exposure by dosimetry as more ob...

Fricke gel dosimetry is a valuable method for in-phantom dose measurements in complex irradiation modalities like IMRT and BNCT. Implementation of this dosimetry technique requires dedicated instruments capable of measuring and further analysis immediately in situ at the radiation facility. This work presents a novel and integral dosimetry system aimed to attain portability requirements. The me...

The development of radionuclide therapies during the past few decades provides a growing body of data on radiobiologic effects, including normal tissue toxicities and antitumor efficacy. Information on normal tissue toxicity from radionuclides is more limited than that from external beam radiation and appears to be more variable. Much of the increased variability is attributed to heterogeneous ...

The water phantom is used for LINAC calibration to measure absorbed dose radiation. Practically, it requires a long preparation time and considered less efficient. To increase efficiency, the medical physics team in hospital uses slab as tool. Consequently, correction factor crucial define equivalence of doses resulted from phantom. measurement was performed according IAEA TRS-398 dosimetry pro...