Open AccessEstimating the population dose from nuclear medicine examinations towards establishing diagnostic reference levels
Author(s) -
Fatemeh Niksirat,
Ali Shabestani Monfared,
Mohammad Reza Deevband,
Mehrangiz Amiri,
Abdollah Gholami
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 0972-3919
pISSN - 0974-0244
DOI - 10.4103/0972-3919.172353
Subject(s) - medicine , percentile , collective dose , per capita , population , nuclear medicine , effective dose (radiation) , distribution (mathematics) , descriptive statistics , statistics , environmental health , mathematical analysis , mathematics
This study conducted a review on nuclear medicine (NM) services in Mazandaran Province with a view to establish adult diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) and provide updated data on population radiation exposure resulting from diagnostic NM procedures.