Reducing Occupational Dose - Video Lesson

Hey, everybody. This lesson discusses methods of reducing occupational dose. Occupational dose reduction is extremely important to prevent long term injuries from radiation exposure, especially in fluoroscopy due to the extended X-ray beam on time. As a healthcare worker, the majority of occupational dose is from scatter radiation. It is important to remember that the patient is a significant source of scatter radiation. When x-ray photons interact with matter such as tissue, Scatter radiation is produced through compton scatter interactions and can strike the healthcare worker. Unlike diagnostic X-ray rooms where technologist can stand behind the control panel to take images. Floroscopy cases require a technologist to be in the room and sometimes close to the patient. In radiography, beam on time may only be a quarter of a second, whereas