Radiation burden to hands of nuclear medicine personnel

Radiation burden is discussed imposed to the hands of nuclear medicine personnel handling 99Mo-sup(99m)Tc generators, imported from the GDR and Great Britain. The results are compared with available foreign data. Routine monitoring of the hands of nuclear medicine personnel is recommended. Suitable types of dosimeters for such measurements are briefly discussed. The need is stressed of better care paid in periodic preventive examinations to the finger skin of those personnel, whose hands come in contact with radiopharmaceuticals during production or application