Affiliation:
1. Federal Research Center for Project Evaluation and Consulting Services; Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education
Abstract
CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Dose rate of gamma and neutron radiation in the cyclotron facility
2. Ionizing radiation in radiochemical laboratory and personnel doses
3. Radiation sources in PET department and their contribution in personnel radiation exposure
4. Doses of patients under performance of PET/CT study
Summary
Publisher
Association of Medical Physicists in Russia
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