Evaluation of Radiation Dose in Nuclear Medicine Departments in Khartoum state

Abstract

This study was conducted in Al-Nilain center and Royal Care Hospital in Khartoum state during the period (July-September, 2018). The main objective of the study was to evaluate the radiation dose in nuclear medicine departments in the above mentioned centers. The researcher used a survey meter to evaluate the level of radiation in all rooms that contain radiation in the two centers namely, (Hot lab room, waiting room, injection room and imaging room). The new (SI) units were used for the measurements. It was noticed that the level of radiation in the waiting room and the injection room at the two departments was within the range accepted by the international organizations. As for the preparation room, and the imaging room the radiation doses were relatively high. This may be due to the fact that the preparation room is the place in which the radioactive materials which are injected to the patients are prepared. As for the imaging room, it is the place where the patients are received for imaging, and the patients constitute a source of radiation. The study showed that the two centers under study were similar in the level of the radiation dose according to the international standards. The study proposed some recommendations which could be useful, including the importance of using modern radiation measurement and control devices to measure personal radiation doses, and increasing the number of nuclear medicine departments in Sudan.