title: Population effective collective dose from nuclear medicine examination in Cuba.
abstract: In an attempt to estimate the effective collective dose imparted to the population of Camagüey-Ciego de Avila territory, Cuba, we have made use of the statistics from nuclear medicine examinations given to a population of 1.1 million inhabitants for the years 1995-1999. The average annual frequency of examinations was estimated to be 3.82 per 1000 population. The results show that nuclear medicine techniques of thyroid imaging with 43.73% and thyroid uptake with 43.36% are the main techniques implicated in the relative contribution to the total annual effective collective dose, which averaged 54.43 man Sv for the studied period. Radiation risks for the Camagüey-Ciego de Avila population caused by nuclear medicine examinations in the period studied were calculated: the total number of fatal and non-fatal cancers was 16.33 and the number of serious hereditary disturbance was 3.54 as a result of 21,073 nuclear medicine procedures, corresponding to a total detriment of one case per thousand examinations.
authors.affiliation: Environmental Engineering Centre of Camagüey, Department of Applied Nuclear Techniques, Avenue Finlay km 2.5 Esquina Circunvalación, Rpto. Puerto Príncipe, Camagüey, Cuba. o.brigido@ciac.cmw.inf.cu
authors.forename: O Brígido
authors.initials: OB
authors.lastname: Flores
authors.forename: A Barreras
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Caballero
authors.forename: O Lasserra
authors.initials: OL
authors.lastname: Sánchez
authors.forename: A Montalván
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Estrada
authors.forename: J Hernández
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: García
mesh_terms: D001822:Body Burden; D003462:Cuba / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000401:mortality*; D009683:Nuclear Medicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009928:Organ Specificity; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011874:Radiometry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012062:Relative Biological Effectiveness; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors