EXAMINATION OF EVENTS OF RADIOLOGICAL PATIENTS FINDING WITH THE USE OF CUSTOM EQUIPMENT FOR RADIATION CONTROL

Abstract

Finding of passengers with internal radioactivity due to recently received nuclear medicine examination or treatment became more frequent since customs have got high sensitivity equipment for radiation control. A scheme of such event examination, passenger measurements, a protocol preparation and decisionmaking developed in the Institute of Radiation Hygiene by order of the Federal Service of Rospotrebnadzor is described in the article.

Keywords

• patient
• radionuclide therapy
• radiation monitoring
• custom
• protocol of examination