Assessment of Radiation Dose Received by Personnel and Patients in Fluoroscopic Urology in Selected Saudi Arabia Hospitals

Abdulrahman A. Alsayyari

Volume : V, Issue : VII, July - 2016

Assessment of Radiation Dose Received by Personnel and Patients in Fluoroscopic Urology in Selected Saudi Arabia Hospitals

Abdulrahman A. Alsayyari

Abstract :

The aim of the current study was to assess the dose received by the fluoroscopic urology staff and patients. The method was based on thermoluminescence (TLD) crystal measurement which attached to patient heads, waist and legs as well as to urology staff under lead apron. The analyzed results showed that: the dose received by the patient�s head (eyes) was 3.2, 3.1 mSv, waist was 5, 4.3 mSv and the legs were 3.5, 3.3 mSv per month respectively, and that received by the assistant urologist and radiation technologist was 0.3 mSv and by the operation preparer, nurse, and anesthetist were 0.27 while the urologist received 0.28 mSv. Also the dose level found to be decreases from the center of exposure towards the room walls inversely following the inverse square law and was significantly (R2 = 0.9) fitted to the equation of the form: y=0.190x^(–0.86) at East direction of the room, y=0.138x^(–0.85) at the West direction of the room, y=0.091x^(–0.086) at North direction of the room and at the South direction was: y=0.057x^(–0.86).