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The estimation of collective dose from medical exposures from diagnostic nuclear medicine examinations in croatia

The largest contribution to the man made radiation exposure of population is from medical exposures and it continues growing. In this work, the collective doses from medical exposures from nuclear medicine diagnostic examinations were estimated for year 2010 in Republic of Croatia according to the European Commission DDM2 project methodology. The collective dose was calculated according to the frequencies of the most frequent nuclear medicine examinations and average effective dose per procedure. The frequencies of different examinations were extracted from Croatian Institute for Health Insurance (CIHI) database. Since database is made for reimbursement we investigated usability of database by comparing it with a survey in 7 out of 9 major Croatian nuclear medicine departments. Average administered activities for 28 most frequent nuclear medicine examinations were surveyed and converted to effective doses according to the ICRP dose coefficients. 41.700 nuclear medicine examinations in a year period leaded to 139 manSv collective effective dose. The frequency of nuclear medicine examination was 10.4 examinations annually per 1, 000 members of population with 34.8 μSv effective dose per caput what is comparable to the published values from the DDM2 project. The range and the mean of administered activities are in the range of published values. A lot of uncertainties were revealed if CIHI database is used for population dose survey. If such surveys would be done regularly, the national radiation protection regulatory body and relevant professional societies should work on more straightforward way of data acquisition.

collective dose ; nuclear medicine ; Croatia ; medical exposure

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