1. Where is the best position to place a dosemeter in order to assess the eye lens dose when lead glasses are used?
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Michiko Ube, Nico Buls, Lara Struelens, Filip Vanhavere, Edilaine Honorio da Silva, Satoshi Ueno, Peter Covens, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Engineering, Medical Imaging, Translational Radiation Oncology and Physics, and Supporting clinical sciences
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Radiation ,Materials science ,business.industry ,Physics::Medical Physics ,Monte Carlo method ,Eye Lens Dosimetry ,Condensed Matter::Disordered Systems and Neural Networks ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,Interventional cardiology/radiology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Radiophotoluminescence ,0302 clinical medicine ,Optics ,Position (vector) ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Lead glasses ,Electromagnetic shielding ,business ,Eye lens ,Lead (electronics) ,Instrumentation ,Beam (structure) - Abstract
The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of assessing the eye lens dose when lead glasses are used, by attaching a small radiophotoluminescent (RPL) glass dosemeter to the lead glasses. RPL dosemeters were placed over and under the shielding of the glasses and their response was evaluated for a range of parameters, including irradiations in a standard X-ray beam and Monte Carlo simulations of a cardiac/radiologic intervention (scattered beam). For the specific situations taken into account in this study, the optimal position was found to be a dosemeter placed close to the bridge of the lead glasses, over its shielding.
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- 2017
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