Analysis of personnel doses from nuclear medicine procedures

With the rapid growth of the use of radiopharmaceuticals for medical diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, radiation protection of personnel has become important. In this paper, the radiation doses of 337 persons in 16 nuclear medicine centers in India are analyzed. In 1976 the average annual dose per person was 0.028 rem. The highest average dose per person per working week was 2.62 mrem. Analysis of the dose records of three major institutions for recent years reveals an increase in the average dose per worker.