IMPACTO EN EL ÁMBITO COMUNITARIO DE UNA INSTALACIÓN DE TOMOGRAFÍA POR EMISIÓN DE POSITRONES- TOMOGRAFÍA COMPUTADA (PET/CT) (Impact of a PET/CT Facility in its Community Environment)

Sv for a relative. Citizens walking along with patients or sharing public transportation with them receive a dose that is below Madrid´s background radiation.
Conclusions: Values obtained are well below annual dose limits.Moreover, these results support the outpatient care of this kind of studies, because accompanying persons’ and relatives’ risk is negligible. The impact of a PET/CT facility does not involve an increase in risk for the general population.