Occupational exposures during abdominal fluoroscopically guided interventional procedures for different patient sizes — A Monte Carlo approach
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In this study we evaluated the occupational exposures during an abdominal fluoroscopically guided interventional radiology procedure. We investigated the relation between the Body Mass Index (BMI), of the patient, and the conversion coefficient values (CC) for a set of dosimetric quantities, used to assess the exposure risks of medical radiation workers. The study was performed using a set of male and female virtual anthropomorphic phantoms, of different body weights and sizes. In addition to these phantoms, a female and a male phantom, named FASH3 and MASH3 (reference virtual anthropomorphic phantoms), were also used to represent the medical radiation workers. The CC values, obtained as a function of the dose area product, were calculated for 87 exposure scenarios. In each exposure scenario, three phantoms, implemented in the MCNPX 2.7.0 code, were simultaneously used. These phantoms were utilized to represent a patient and medical radiation workers. The results showed that increasing the BMI of the patient, adjusted for each patient protocol, the CC values for medical radiation workers decrease. It is important to note that these results were obtained with fixed exposure parameters.
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SANTOS, WILLIAM S.; BELINATO, WALMIR; PERINI, ANA P.; CALDAS, LINDA V.E.; GALEANO, DIEGO C.; SANTOS, CARLA J.; NEVES, LUCIO P. Occupational exposures during abdominal fluoroscopically guided interventional procedures for different patient sizes — A Monte Carlo approach. Physica Medica - European Journal of Medical Physics, v. 45, p. 35-43, 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2017.11.016. Disponível em: http://repositorio.ipen.br/handle/123456789/28847. Acesso em: 19 Apr 2024.
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