Eye lens exposure to X-ray radiation of medical staff as a risk factor for radiation cataract induction

2013/09/N/NZ7/02123

Keywords

Descriptors

  • NZ7_2: Zagrożenia środowiskowe
  • NZ7_6: Medycyna pracy

Panel

NZ7 – Diagnostic tools, therapies and public health: public health, epidemiology, environmental health risks and occupational medicine, medical ethics, drug discovery and therapies, pharmacology

Host institution

INSTYTUT MEDYCYNY PRACY IM.PROF.DR MED.JERZEGO NOFERA W ŁODZI

Voivodeship: łódzkie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution)

Marcin Brodecki

Number of co-investigators in the project: 2

Call

PRELUDIUM 5 – announced on 2013-03-15

Amount awarded
94 200 PLN
Project start date
2014-02-13
Project end date
2016-02-12
Project duration
24 months (the same as in the proposal)
Project status
Project settled

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Komputer przenośny z oprogramowaniem. Cost: 3 500 PLN
  2. System detekcji i spektrometrii promieniowania X XR-100T-CdTe. Cost: 24 000 PLN

Information in the final report

Publication in academic press/journals (1)

  1. The effectiveness of lead glasses in reducing the doses to eye lenses during cardiac implantation procedures performed using x-ray tubes above the patient table

    Authors:
    Joanna Domienik , Marcin Brodecki
    Academic press:
    Journal of Radiological Protection (year: 2016, volume: 36, pages: 19-25), Publisher: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0952-4746/36/2/N19 – link to the publication

Articles in post-conference publications (2)

  1. Distributiom of X-ray doses to the region of the medical staff eye lenses and extremities during interventional cardiology procedures

    Authors:
    Marcin Brodecki, Joanna Domienik, Marek Zmyślony
    Conference:
    International Conference on Individual Monitoring of Ionising Radiation, April 2015, Bruges (year: 2015, pages: 184), Publisher: SCK-CEN Belgium
    Date:
    conference 20-24 kwietnia
    Status:
    Published
  2. Phantom measurements of air kerma/dose equivalent convertion coefficient for eye lens dosimetry

    Authors:
    Marcin Brodecki
    Conference:
    Congress of Polish Society of Medical Physics, 50th anniversary of PSMP (year: 2015, pages: 127), Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Fizyki Medycznej
    Date:
    conference 3-5 września
    Status:
    Published

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