First steps towards online personal dosimetry using computational methods in interventional radiology: Operator's position tracking and simulation input generation

Mahmoud Abdelrahman, Pasquale Lombardo, Filip Vanhavere, Alain Seret, Christophe Phillips, Peter Covens

Onderzoeksoutput: Articlepeer review

11 Citaten (Scopus)

Samenvatting

Interventional radiologists/cardiologists are repeatedly exposed to low radiation doses which makes them the group of the highest occupational exposure and put them at high risk of stochastic effects. Routine monitoring of staff is usually performed by means of passive dosimeters. However, current personal dosimeters are subject to large uncertainties, especially in non-homogeneous fields, like those found in interventional cardiology (IC). Within the PODIUM (Personal Online DosImetry Using computational Methods) research project, a user-friendly tool was developed based on MCNP code to calculate doses to the staff in IC. The application uses both the data of motion tracking system to generate the position of the operator and the data from the Radiation Dose Structure Report (RDSR) from the imaging device to generate time-dependent parameters of the radiation source. The results of the first clinical validation of the system show a difference of about 50% between simulated Hp(10) with MCNP and measured Hp(10) with electronic personal dosimeter worn above the lead apron.
Originele taal-2English
Artikelnummer108702
TijdschriftRadiation Physics and Chemistry
Volume171
DOI's
StatusPublished - jun 2020

Bibliografische nota

Funding Information:
PODIUM project is funded by the “CONCERT-European Joint Programme for the Integration of Radiation Protection Research 2014–2018” under grant agreement No. 662287.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd

Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

Vingerafdruk

Duik in de onderzoeksthema's van 'First steps towards online personal dosimetry using computational methods in interventional radiology: Operator's position tracking and simulation input generation'. Samen vormen ze een unieke vingerafdruk.

Citeer dit