[A method for assessing the radiation loads on personnel and patients in accident situations with gamma therapy apparatus].
The authors proposed drawing up maps of dose rate distribution under the conditions simulating patient's irradiation for each gamma therapeutic unit in order to estimate a degree of danger of excess irradiation of medical staff and patients during patient's evacuation resulting from a defective unit (incomplete closure of locks in distant irradiation and sources getting stuck in endostats in interstitial therapy). The timing of measures for evacuation of a patient from an emergency room made it possible to calculate accurately equivalent doses to which a radiologist, a technician and a patient were exposed.
Likhovetskaia
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Ratner
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Sevast'ianov
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Mar'ina
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D000059:Accidents; D001918:Brachytherapy / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation; D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes / Q000008:administration & dosage; D003037:Cobalt Radioisotopes / Q000008:administration & dosage; D005720:Gamma Rays / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage
D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes; D003037:Cobalt Radioisotopes
Sposob otsenki luchevykh nagruzok dlia personala i bol'nykh pri avariĭnykh situatsiiakh na gamma-terapevticheskikh apparatov.