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Assessment of Occupational Exposure Among Pakistani Medical Staff During 2007–2011

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The data analysis of occupationally exposed medical workers in Nuclear Medicine (NM), Radiotherapy (RT) and Diagnostic Radiology (DR) at the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology (INMOL), Pakistan is presented for the time interval (2007–2011). The whole-body exposure doses of the workers were measured by using the Film Badge Dosimetry technique. The annual average effective doses in NM, RT and DR have been found well below the permissible annual limit of 20 mSv (averaged over a period of 5 consecutive years), with no over-exposure detected. This declining trend of annual average effective dose is the consequence of improved radiation protection practices at INMOL during the recent years.

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  1. Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology (INMOL), New Campus Road, P. O. Box No. 10068, Lahore, Pakistan

    Khalid Masood, Munir Ahmad, Mumtaz ul Haq & Afshan Ashfaq

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Electromagnetics and High Power Microwave Research Group, Comsats, Lahore, Pakistan

    Junaid Zafar

  3. Tissue Optics and Microcirculation Imaging, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

    Haroon Zafar

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Masood, K., Ahmad, M., Zafar, J. et al. Assessment of Occupational Exposure Among Pakistani Medical Staff During 2007–2011. Australas Phys Eng Sci Med 35, 297–300 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13246-012-0156-y

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