Personal dosimetry for interventional operators: when and how should monitoring be done?

Assessment of the potential doses to the hands and eyes for interventional radiologists and cardiologists can be difficult. A review of studies of doses to interventional operators reported in the literature has been undertaken.Distributions for staff dose to relevant parts of the body per unit dose-area product and for doses per procedure in cardiology have been analysed and mean, median and quartile values derived. The possibility of using...