Measuring of radiation levels in radiology departments at Libyan Hospitals

المؤلفون

  • Fatma Issa Department of diagnostic and therapeutic radiology, College of Medical Sciences and Technology/Tripoli and Department of medical and radiation physics, Tripoli University Hospital

الكلمات المفتاحية:

Survey، radiologyexposure، area monitors

الملخص

Aims: This work aims to measure and monitor the exposure levels for staff and patients in the radiology departments at Tripoli University Hospital and Central Tripoli Hospital. Materials and Methods: radiation survey was carries out using Szintomat 6134A Geiger counter survey meter for the diagnostic and therapeutic radiology departments at the Tripoli University Hospital and using the RADOS RDS-120 ionising radiation meter for the diagnostic and therapeutic radiology departments at the Tripoli Central Hospital. Results: The radiation survey's results were within 0.05 µSv/hr and 0.10 µSv/hr at Tripoli University Hospital and Central Tripoli Hospital, respectively; which are too low and within the levels of radiation background

المراجع

Bushberg JT, Seibert JA, Leidholdt EM, Boone JM. The essential physics of medical imaging. 3rd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2012.

Podgorsak EB. Basic Radiation Physics. In: Podgorsak EB, editior. Radiation Oncology Physics: a handbook for teachers and students. Vienna: IAEA; 2005. P. 1- 21

التنزيلات

منشور

2023-05-01

كيفية الاقتباس

Issa, F. (2023). Measuring of radiation levels in radiology departments at Libyan Hospitals. مجلة البحوث الأكاديمية, 25, 8–13. استرجع في من https://lam-journal.ly/index.php/jar/article/view/61

إصدار

القسم

العلوم الهندسية والتطبيقية