This study evaluated nuclear medicine occupational radiation doses at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, a 700-bed tertiary care teaching hospital in Oman. Personal effective whole-body doses, Hp(10), and extremity doses, Hp(0.07), were collected for 19 medical radiation workers over a 7-year period (2015–2021). Personal doses for four professional groups were measured using calibrated thermo-luminescence dosemeters ((LiF:Mg,Ti) TLD-100). The average, median and maximum cumulative doses were compared against the annual whole-body and extremity dose limits (20 mSv and 500 mSv y−1, respectively) and local dose investigation level (DIL; 6 mSv y−1). Personal whole-body doses (average:median:maximum) for technologists, medical physicists, nuclear medicine physicians and nurses were 1.8:1.1:7.8, 0.3:0.3:0.4, 0.1:0.1:0.2 and 0.1:0.1:0.2 mSv, respectively. Personal extremity doses for left and right hand (average and maximum doses) follow similar trends. Average annual effective whole-body and extremity doses were well below the recommended annual dose limits. The findings suggest lowering local DIL for all staff except for technologists.
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Bouchareb, Y., Al-Mabsali, J., Al-Zeheimi, H., Al-Jabri, A., Tag, N., & Al-Dhuhli, H. (2023). Evaluation of institutional whole-body and extremity occupational radiation doses in nuclear medicine. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 199(19), 2318–2327. https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncad235
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