Abstract Radiology during pregnancy: risks, radiation protection in medical practice, and communication with the patient. Authors: Harmen Bijwaard, Fleur Wit, Colinda Vroonland, has been accepted as POSTER at the 47th Annual Meeting of the European Radiation Research Society (ERRS 2022), which will …

Door recente verlaging van de equivalente dosis van de ooglens van 150 mSv naar 20 mSv per jaar, is het belang van goed monitoren van ontvangen dosis nog belangrijker geworden. In deze studie is onderzocht wat de stralenbelasting is van interventiecardiologen, cardio-thoracaalchirurg, cardio-anesthesiologen …

Op de angiografie worden interventies van de bloedvaten uitgevoerd, waarbij de medewerkers worden blootgesteld aan straling. In de recente wetgeving is de dosis voor de ooglens bijgesteld van 150 mSv naar 20 mSv per jaar. In deze studie is onderzocht wat de ontvangen ooglensdosis van de interventie radiologen …

Het doel van dit praktijkgericht onderzoek is een advies geven aan het OK-personeel in het Medisch Centrum Leeuwarden, zodat zo stralingshygiënisch als praktischer wijs mogelijk gewerkt kan worden bij werkzaamheden met de mini C-boog bij hand-/polschirurgie. Tijdens acht ingrepen met de mini C-boog is …

Concepts to protect wood from factors like ultraviolet (UV) radiation, water and wood-decaying fungi with the help of fungi exist in different variants. The idea to treat wood with the help of linseed oil and the living fungus Aureobasidium pullulans originated in 1996 during an European project assessing …

Abstract—A survey was conducted among 20 Dutch hospitals about radiation protection for interventional fluoroscopy. This was a follow-up of a previous study in 2007 that led to several recommendations for radiation protection for interventional fluoroscopy. The results indicate that most recommendations …

Abstract—A survey about radiation protection in pediatric radiology was conducted among 22 general and seven children’s hospitals in the Netherlands. Questions concerned, for example, child protocols used for CT, fluoroscopy and x-ray imaging, number of images and scans made, radiation doses and measures …

AbstractDue to the crisis of 2008 the construction and real estate market became more demand-driven. Architects, builders and developers are looking for high-quality solutions for the realization of sustainable buildings. Supplying SMEs experience an increasing demand for bio-based materials with lower …

This paper reviews the literature for lowering of dose to paediatric patients through use of exposure factors and additional filtration. Dose reference levels set by The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) will be considered. Guidance was put in place in 1996 requires updating …

This review aims to identify strategies to optimise radiography practice using digital technologies, for full spine studies on paediatrics focusing particularly on methods used to diagnose and measure severity of spinal curvatures. The literature search was performed on different databases (PubMed, Google …