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OCCUPATIONAL EYE LENS DOSE OVER SIX YEARS IN THE STAFF OF A US HIGH-VOLUME CANCER CENTER

Authors :
Daniel Miodownik
Brian T. Quinn
Lawrence T. Dauer
Michael B. Bellamy
Source :
Radiation Protection Dosimetry
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020.

Abstract

This paper summarizes the dose to the eye lens of workers of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a high-volume US oncologic and associated diseases facility. The doses presented in this report were collected from personal dosemeter readings using optically stimulated luminescence badges to estimate Hp(3). Doses were collected for 5950 clinical and research workers between January 2012 and December 2017. The median eye lens dose for all monitored workers was 0.23 mSv y−1. Workers performing, or supporting, fluoroscopy procedures received the highest unprotected eye lens dose of all workers with a median eye dose of 10 mSv. The use of leaded glasses by this group reduced the actual doses to the lens. Nurses and technicians involved in positron emission tomography injections received median eye lens dose of 1.2 mSv.

Details

ISSN :
17423406 and 01448420
Volume :
192
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Radiation Protection Dosimetry
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....4e8838205e55baecd1589042c8e72abf