Personal Radiation Protection and Corresponding Dosimetry in Interventional Radiology: An Overview and Future Developments

At a glance

Type of study

Narrative review

Who was studied

Interventional radiologists, Mixed lab staff

Topics

Personal protective equipmentDosimetry and monitoringEye lens and cataractsCancer risk

Summary based on

the abstract

What it found

• Optimal staff radiation protection requires combining different protection devices rather than relying on one.

• Protection and monitoring of the head, neck and especially the eye lens are not yet sufficiently accepted and need further development.

• The authors recommend introducing protective glasses with an integrated dosimeter into routine practice to reduce cataract risk.

• Growing procedure numbers, complexity and exposure time are likely to raise radiation exposure for interventional radiologists and staff.

Limits to keep in mind

Narrative literature review with a keyword search and no stated systematic methods or quantitative synthesis; only the abstract was available, so no effect sizes are reported.

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