PET CT radiation safety

[yesmaster]

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Do your groups do anything to minimize occupational exposure after PET/CT’s? A lot of times cancer centers have a PET/CT in house and they see us same-day after imaging.

 

[taserlaser]

Great question. Apart from inpatient charts that have labels on for a day after PET, we don’t have anything specifically for our outpts afaik. All of our staff wear dosimeters, and I do think our sim staff do record the highest doses of the lot due to a lot of patients being simmed right after nuclear scans, though.

 

[communitydoc13]

Radiation Exposure from a PET Scan

Read how much radiation one can be exposed to during a PET (positron emission tomography) scan and if there is any reason for concern.

hps.org

Great treatment at above link. Compare to background radiation. I don't think there is a need.

 

[madchemist89]

I had physics look into this, and we found the dose to be negligible.

 

[Gfunk6]

We have this very situation. Our recommendation is to stay 6 feet away from patients for 20 hours after injection.