Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Date (from‐to) : 2018/04 -2021/03
Author : Hiroshi Kondo
Twenty-five IR physicians nationwide who performed IR wearing radiation protective eyeglasses during the one-year. Personal dosimeters were attached to the outer and inner surfaces of the left lens of the protective glasses and were collected every month to measure the 3-mm dose equivalent (Do) of the outer surface of the lens and the 3-mm dose equivalent (Di) of the inner surface of the lens. The correlations with the 70 μm dose equivalent (Dn) estimated from personal dosimeters distributed separately and worn on the neck were also confirmed. The mean monthly values of Do, Di, and Dn were 0.89, 0.40, and 1.18 mSV, respectively. Do showed a strong correlation with Dn and Di, respectively. 3 doctors (12%) exceeded 20 mSv/year, although there were no doctors whose Do exceeded 50 mSV/year.
The IR physicians ’s dose to the eye lens can exceed the equivalent dose limit, particularly when radiation protection glasses, which decrease the exposure dose by about 50%, are not used.