Five-year follow-up study on individual doses of Korean radiation workers based on ICRP 103 (2006-2010)

This study examined individual doses of Korean radiation workers divided into deep and surface doses based on the dose limits recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) or ICRP 103 (approved on March 2007) for 5 years from 2006 to 2010. In addition, the exposure do...

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Published in:Radiation effects and defects in solids 2012-11, Vol.167 (11), p.871-884
Main Authors: Lee, Jae-Seung, Ryu, Young-Hwan, Dong, Kyung-Rae, Goo, Eun-Hoe, Cho, Jae-Hwan, Lee, Hae-Kag, Kang, Seong-Jin, Choi, Eun-Jin, Chung, Woon-Kwan, Cha, Jang-Gyu
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Language:English
Subjects:
deep dose
Hospitals
Human exposure
ICRP 103
Medical technology
Nuclear power plants
Radiation
radiation workers
surface dose
Workers
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Summary:This study examined individual doses of Korean radiation workers divided into deep and surface doses based on the dose limits recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) or ICRP 103 (approved on March 2007) for 5 years from 2006 to 2010. In addition, the exposure doses were compared according to occupation, departments and scale of the medical institutions (primary, secondary and tertiary) as well as between dental hospitals and hospitals, which is currently an issue, using 116,220 sets of data on the quarterly and yearly exposure doses of 5811 Korean radiation workers measured over a 5-year period (January 2006 to December 2010). For the mean exposure doses according to occupation, both deep and surface doses were higher in radiological technicians than in the other occupations and there was a significant difference between radiological technicians and others (researchers and assistants) (p
ISSN:1042-0150
1029-4953
DOI:10.1080/10420150.2012.669762