A real time active pixel dosimeter for interventional radiology

The Interventional Radiology (IR) is a well established technique in medical domain aiming to obtain a good X-ray image quality while minimizing the radiation dose absorbed by patients and staff members. From a radioprotection point of view, these procedures are considered potentially harmful for interventional radiologists and medical staff. Individual monitoring of operators is very important and is performed by assessing effective dose, equivalent dose to the extremities and eye lens, with the use of passive dosimeters (e.g. TLDs) calibrated in terms of personal dose equivalent Hp (10), Hp (0.07) and Hp (3), respectively.