8th Baltic Congress of Radiology

08.10.2022 Tallinn, Estonia

Our experience in assessment of occupational exposure in nuclear medicine and future perspectives

Kirill Skovorodko (Lithuania)

Medical physicist, Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos

Biography: Kirill Skovorodko works as medical physicist at Vilnius University Santaros Klinikos, from 2021 Member of the Commission of medical physicist expert recognition in Lithuania. The main responsibilities are quality control tests of diagnostic medical facilities and equipment, radiation dose rate measuring and radiation protection in different medical areas, quality control and assurance of different equipment, public radiation safety, patient dose assessment and diagnostic reference levels, shielding, dose optimization, nuclear medicine dosimetry of the patients, documents related to radiation administration.

Presentation

Terrace Hall

Title of abstract: O-T12-03 Our experience in assessment of occupational exposure in nuclear medicine and future perspectives

Synopsis: Nuclear medicine personnel is responsible for positioning patients during image acquisition, preparation and administration of radiopharmaceuticals, which leads to higher doses of the whole body Hp(10) and extremity Hp(0.07). The aim of this study was to evaluate and assess exposure doses for different processes and activities in nuclear medicine division.

This agenda item is presented in the following session: S2-4 Nuclear Medicine

Plenary session

07.10.2022 11:00 - 13:00