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Occupational radiation exposure dose and associated factors among radiology personnel in Eastern Amhara, Ethiopia.

Tadesse Guangul AlemayehuGetahun Gebre BogaleGetaw Walle Bazie
Published in: PloS one (2023)
The annual dose equivalents were two times higher than the global average of annual per caput effective dose due to medical exposure. Body mass index, practice of timing, working experience, and practice of distancing were factors of occupational radiation exposure dose. Strategies focusing on increasing the skill, experience, and lifestyle of radiology personnel would be supreme important means to reduce occupational radiation exposure dose.
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