PEP-M1.
Dose Estimates to Workers From Y-90 Excluding Fluoroscopy During Microspheres Treatments A Miller*, Cleveland Clinic
Abstract: During Y-90 microsphere treatments, workers receive occupational dose from fluoroscopy use and from the Y-90 microspheres. The dosimeters in use by the workers integrates the doses received from both sources during the wear period. The occupational dose received from the fluoroscopy use on each patient is highly variable and dominates the occupational exposure for the physician. The occupational dose received from the Y-90 sources is estimated by dose rate measurements and time/motion studies to provide a tool to provide customizable dose estimates for each user based on their tasks. This information can be used to better educate staff members in the interventional radiology suite who work with these patients.
This will be a more detailed version of the methods and equipment used to develop a paper submitted for presentation at the meeting.
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