Radiation Workers

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Workers and Security Screening

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Questions in this Category Are in the Following Subcategories:
•  Pregnant Workers
•  Miscellaneous
Pregnant Workers
Q101	–	What regulations pertain to the pregnant radiographer?
Q309	–	Is working with phosphorus-32 a problem if pregnant?
Q468	–	Pregnancy and dental x rays
Q641	–	Radiation exposure to pregnant staff during fluoroscopy
Q4115	–	Fluoroscopy in operating room
Q4135	–	Pediatric cardiologist
Q4147	–	Pregnancy status of patient
Q4256	–	Near patient undergoing a CT
Q4392	–	Exposure to xenon-133
Q4522	–	Lead bricks
Q4545	–	Wearing two aprons
Q4599	–	Use of mobile x-ray equipment
Q4667	–	PET/CT technologist
Q4704	–	Radiologist during fluoroscopy
Q4749	–	Son's low sperm count
Q4794	–	Effect on wife
Q4885	–	Dental assistant
Q4945	–	MRI operator
Q4955	–	Administering iodine-131
Q4959	–	Nuclear medicine technologist
Q4960	–	Veterinary nurse
Q4985	–	Rotation in PET department
Q5177	–	Dental hygienist
Q5212	–	Large animal radiology technician
Q5345	–	Discrimination while pregnant
Q5628	–	Radiologic technologist
Q5669	–	Exposure to ovaries during fluoroscopy
Q6071	–	Orthopedic resident
Q6116	–	Caretaker of radioactive patient
Q6118	–	Surgeon doing fluoroscopy and using technetium
Q6315	–	Crystallography
Q6658	–	Risk of fetal exposure from dental x-ray room
Miscellaneous
Q102	–	I work in a laboratory with carbon-14 and am pregnant. Am I safe?
Q127	–	Radiation passing through an open door to an x-ray room
Q134	–	Image intensifier
Q169	–	What does a radiologist do?
Q215	–	Iodine-131 exposures in the nuclear pharmacy compounding industry
Q301	–	Speech pathologist using barium swallows
Q302	–	I am concerned about nuclear medicine exposures to an ultrasound technologist.
Q318	–	Hydrogen-3 and carbon-14 in barrels
Q321	–	Risks in a cardiac catheter lab
Q324	–	Nuclear medicine technologist
Q406	–	Cardiac catheterization lab.
Q453	–	Reduce technician exposure
Q531	–	Radiologist vs. pathologist
Q643	–	Holding a patient during x-ray exams
Q810	–	Who is the governing body for outpatient surgery centers?
Q819	–	Hurthle cell carcinoma and radiation
Q864	–	Assignment of occupational doses
Q872	–	Radiation monitoring of x-ray technicians
Q877	–	PET exposure-reduction procedures
Q911	–	Xenon experiments
Q927	–	Where to wear a body badge
Q947	–	Sulfur-35 experiments
Q965	–	Risks to a pregnant radiologist
Q974	–	Giving dental x rays while pregnant
Q1034	–	Pregnant dental hygienist
Q1042	–	Thyroid shields for radiation workers
Q1102	–	Pregnant radiography technician
Q1115	–	Pregnant nuclear medicine technician
Q1120	–	Do x-ray films have residual radioactivity?
Q1149	–	Operating-room nurse
Q1155	–	Catheterization laboratory
Q1226	–	Working as a dentist
Q1263	–	Radiopharmaceutical half-lives
Q1345	–	Radiologists
Q1346	–	Dental hygienist
Q1442	–	Exposure rate in a diagnostic radiology department
Q1455	–	Effects on radiographers
Q1523	–	Beta radiation
Q1670	–	Effects on caregiver
Q1687	–	Phosphorus-32 in lab
Q1714	–	Laboratory work with phosphorus-32
Q1748	–	Sensitivity of organs
Q1802	–	Held children during x rays
Q1903	–	Dental hygienist
Q1919	–	Working with iodine-125
Q1961	–	Graves' disease
Q2052	–	Quadramet
Q2056	–	Veterinarian risks
Q2083	–	Husband works in cardiac laboratory
Q2117	–	X-ray and MRI technologist
Q2141	–	Speech pathologist and barium swallow
Q2146	–	Nuclear medicine department
Q2149	–	Iodine-131 room cleanup
Q2230	–	Technologists' Doses
Q2438	–	Down Syndrome
Q2453	–	Radiation oncologist
Q2455	–	CT fluoroscopy
Q2510	–	Dental office
Q2664	–	Cardiac catheterizations
Q2665	–	X-ray technologist intern
Q2667	–	Dental hygienist
Q2674	–	Cardiac lab
Q2676	–	Work with children treated for cancer
Q2678	–	Near patients after PET scans
Q2698	–	Dental hygienist
Q2711	–	Wife of nuclear medicine technician
Q2714	–	Nuclear medicine technologist
Q2719	–	Resident in radiation oncology
Q2722	–	Effects on ovaries
Q2723	–	Dental hygienist
Q2724	–	Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
Q2736	–	Catheterization laboratory
Q2740	–	Neurosurgical physician assistant
Q2764	–	X-ray doses to person in room
Q2798	–	Lymphoma survivor
Q2808	–	Dental radiographs and miscarriage
Q2901	–	ALARA
Q2945	–	Radiographer
Q3042	–	Breast cancer and x rays?
Q3078	–	Doses from PET operations
Q3170	–	Exposure to pregnant woman
Q3315	–	CHARGE Syndrome
Q3434	–	Radiation doses to PET technologists
Q3543	–	Perform PET procedures
Q3593	–	Radiologist forgot lead apron
Q3602	–	Exposed to radioactive package
Q3725	–	Dental hygienist and breast cancer
Q3746	–	Nuclear medicine patients
Q3771	–	Anesthesiologist's fluoroscopy exposures
Q3810	–	Dentist
Q3813	–	Restrained from working
Q3823	–	RIA work
Q3843	–	Dose increases
Q3868	–	Crystallography laboratory
Q3907	–	3H leucine
Q3913	–	Cardiologist and lead aprons
Q3964	–	Dentist
Q4001	–	Nuclear medicine laboratory
Q4003	–	Dental hygienist
Q4013	–	Laser Exposure
Q4038	–	Dental dosimetry program
Q4055	–	Librarian uses desensitizer
Q4070	–	Disposal of x-ray unit
Q4095	–	Work in old x-ray room
Q4104	–	ICU unit
Q4171	–	Ring dosimeters in interventional radiology
Q4276	–	Nurse with patients needing x rays
Q4313	–	Badging in c-arm fluoroscopy room
Q4460	–	Concern about exposure as a dosimetrist
Q4485	–	Can I refuse to hold patients?
Q4591	–	Workers under 18
Q4647	–	Fluorine-18 exposures to staff
Q4651	–	Doses to radiology workers
Q4682	–	Who is qualified to operate a c-arm fluoroscope?
Q4683	–	X ray of aircraft parts
Q4705	–	Nuclear stress test patients
Q4809	–	Echo technicians
Q4873	–	DOE worker exposures
Q4926	–	Sonographers and nuclear medicine exposure
Q4958	–	Minimum age of radiation worker
Q4966	–	Hair loss
Q5000	–	Massage therapist and exposure from client
Q5078	–	Requirements for an RSO
Q5085	–	Chiropractor x-ray technician
Q5134	–	Shielding for special patients
Q5193	–	Qualifications for an RSO
Q5651	–	Bone density machine
Q5730	–	Thyroid cancer at nuclear power station
Q5733	–	Radiology technician
Q5811	–	Brain effects
Q5841	–	Dosimeters for workers
Q5962	–	Concerns of a female nuclear medical technologist
Q5971	–	Change jobs at nuclear power plant after radiation treatment
Q6111	–	Respiratory therapist and CT scans
Q6113	–	Iodine-131 treatments
Q6159	–	Autopsy Risk
Q6261	–	Exposure high enough for medical exam
Q6483	–	Nurse in operating room
Q6489	–	Neonatal unit
Q6551	–	Monitoring students in short course
Q6577	–	X rays of chiropractic spine patients
Q7483	–	Exposure limits for radiography student
Q7517	–	Janitor working in labs with radioactive materials
Q8093	–	Radiation use on humans prohibited for training
Q8522	–	Monitoring sulphur-35