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NIH: Occupational radiation dose to RTs needs careful monitoring

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission limits occupational radiation exposure to 50 mSv per year.) The group's findings were published April 8 in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. "[The Radiologic Technologists (USRT) cohort who responded to work history questionnaires that were administered between 2012 and 2014.

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Researchers offer age-specific dose estimator for fluoroscopy exams

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A team of researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital has developed an age-specific dose catalog for estimating radiation exposure to children from diagnostic and interventional radiology fluoroscopy procedures. mSv for interventional radiology (24 procedure types) and 0.001 to 0.44

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Meet the Minnies 2024 finalists

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Elliot Fishman, MD, Johns Hopkins Medicine The second finalist is Elliot Fishman, MD, a category for which he took the trophy in 2001, 2007, 2014, and 2017. Colleen Dempsey, EdD, of Thomas Jefferson University is hoping to take home her second Minnie for Most Effective Radiologic Sciences Educator.

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Y-90 radioembolization safe in people living with HIV

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The study was published January 10 in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. For the procedure, an interventional radiologist inserts a catheter into the artery in the groin, guides it to the hepatic artery, and then releases Y-90 microbeads into the small vessels that feed the tumor to deliver radiation.