Patient exposure and radiation risk in Bulgarian diagnostic nuclear medicine. I. Survey of diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures in Bulgaria in 1980
Poppitz, R.
Nuklearmedizin. Nuclear Medicine 21(3): 85-91
1982
ISSN/ISBN: 0029-5566 PMID: 7134004 Document Number: 185524
For the estimation of population and radiation risk due to diagnostic nuclear medicine in Bulgaria, a national survey for 1980 was made of the number and type of radiopharmaceutical applications, administered activity and age and sex distribution of the examined patients. The total number of diagnostic applications was 116,418 (40.5% males and 59.5% females), i.e., 13.1 applications per 1000 inhabitants. The total administered activity of all 44 radiopharmaceuticals used in vivo was .apprx. 2.1 TBq (or 56 Ci). The age and sex distribution of the examined patients was similar to that in other countries: 17.4% of all patients were within the reproductive age, 52.7% were over 45 yr old. In comparison with the situation in other developed countries, the number of diagnostic applications of 131I-iodide was relatively high.