uidelines for shieldin: ray installations The utility can hence forth follow the standard layout plans as provided in AERB web-site or customize it as per guidelines given below: Options in shielding materials X-ray equipment must be installed in adequately shielded rooms to ensure that public in the vicinity of the xray installalions are not unduly exposed to x-ray radiation, The adequacy of shielding depends on the material and thickness used for this purpose. Different materials can be used for shielding. However, brick or concrete are considered the best materials, as they are easily avallable, economical, and have good structural strength. ‘While-lead Is a suitable shielding option for energies encountered in diagnostic x-rays, it is a weak structural material with tendency to lose uniformity and needs periodic radiation ‘survey to ensure its continued adequacy, Also, Lead poses a serious environmental hazard and the use of It Is being discouraged the world over. Recently, many new materials are being used/ developed as potential shielding materials, as an alternate to Lead. AERB would like to promots use of these materials, on demonstration of shielding adequacy. Step- by-step guidelines for submission of layout plan in dlagnostic radiology facility 1) Decide a suitable room for housing an X-ray unit to facilitate the easy movement of staff and patient posttioning. 2) Room should have preferably one entrance door and window if present, should be above 2m from the finished floor level outside the x-ray room. 3) Door should have a hydraulic mechanism to ensure that door is closed during procedure and should be provided with overlapping at the joints to avoid streaming, 4) Identify the wails as Wail A, Wall B, Wall C & Wall D (in any sequence 5) Position the location of the equipment for each modality as follows: @) Radiography and Fluoroscopy equipment: Couch, Control console and chest stand ~ In such a way that chest stand is on the opposite wall of the entrance door and the control console, ~ Mobile protective barrier with lead equivalent glass viewing window should be positioned in such @ manner that the operator is completely shielded during the exposure. ~ Control console should be positioned as far away as possible from the xray tube, 4) Computed Tomography and Interventional radiology equipment: Gantry/C-Arm, Couch, i Separate control console room, viewing window, le from the control + Position the gantry and couch such that the patient is completely console, during the scanning + The entrance door to the gantry room from the control console shall have similar requirements as the patient entrance door. ¢) Mammography/ OPG/ CBCT: Control console, Equipment and Protective barrier Positioning of equipment should be as far as possible from the door and the control console._—. 6). Decide on the material and thickness of walls and door by referring to equipment specific table. 7) Measure the distances of all the walls, doors, windows from the cantre of the couch 8) Tabulate the details of layout and shielding as given in Annexure-1 PLEASE NOTE: 7 . ae “Tho final aésessniént of the adequacy of the design and construction of structural shielding B bs nthe radiation. ~ survey of the completed Installation fo be carried out atthe time of commissioning after installation by supplier of — “the équlpment I the essesement survey shows defences addtfonalsheldtg or modieation of eaulpment an and— ‘roeeures ar required, oa _ REFERENCE DATA ON SHIELDING OF X-RAY INSTALLATION ROOM ~~~ Raclography and Flucroscopy 7 fd Ee ae iy en ee ‘Zam | Primary wallofdedicaedchest | ‘Shielding Material : xray Installation at 2m [Brick (emp. B 2 6 wr Concrete (cm) 1265 10.67 9.35 4 216 Baryte Plaster (cm) 45 4.0 05 15 Stee (om) 25 20 1B = Lead (mm) 2 182 148 15 Any other material 231 Tae | Tr vr Sas TV Floor (instalation is nol on ground floor) and caling thicknesé of 8 8 om concrete fs adequale, Computed Tomography Disinoe fom ean of pale Tabla Shieldi ee Tim Tin 20m 2am 50 Brick) 780 HO 2 200 18 Concrete (nim) 180. 170 80 130 120 Lead (mm) 23 2 +8 15 td ‘ny other makoal Bae TT | S0aTvT | are 1vT | 268 TT BAST (Wo. of V73) Interventional Radiology (Cardiac Angiography) Disanoe om cane of alent Tie hiking Material 70m Tam | 20m] 25m 30mm Bik fam) ry B i w 6 Coneret(mii) 160 140 13 120 70 Stee (mm) 20 iF 16 ie 13 Lead (mm) 23 22 19 18 18 Any other material 375 Wi save | ate TVE | 2a TT |___ 2810Mammography Distance from centre of Shielding Merial pafen Table ' tom | tem Gypsum Wallboard (mm) 5 0 Pate Glass (mim) 0 0 Concrete (mm) 0 70 7 Briok (mm) % 0 Any other material amt | 1s8tvr ‘Standard gypsum walboard constuction i usualy adequate fo shia the wals of mammography faclty (es per thickness given below) Sold care wooden doo (5 cm thick) leaing to coridors outside a mammography room provide adoqueale shaking, Standard wooden doors may nol be sufcent ifthe shielded area has signicant cupancy, ‘Standard conorele constuction provides adequate barriers above and below mammographic acliles Lead lined walls an doors are usually not required Bone Mineral Densitometry (Assumed workload 60 ptlieek) Dose rate al ms less than allowable dose lint fo public hence no structural shield fs needed oven withthe smallost room, Dental CBCTIOPG (Ref: Report of HPA woking parton dental CBCT(HPA-REO-065) Distance rom cenie of palin Tab hiking Mato can Coa Tm Tom Zim Brick 22 M7 15 $2 Conorte [on 143 1 248 a Baryte Plaster (om) 15 10 = = Lead (rm) 216 i7 7a if Any other material 25iVE IN i721 Tan "Coslrec a his isla as Tho Tol pinto hs sgapmenl fs enal Whoa Tso Dental -intra oral radiography (Recommendetory) Distance om eshte of patent Tab Shilling Materia Tm 2 im Pimary | Séconay | Piary | — Secondary | ~ Piiary | Sezondany wall wal wall wall wall wall Brick em @ E w 3 3 = Concrete (im) § 4 34s ig 7 = Lead (om) 10 uM 08 02 08 | a6FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION OF LAYOUT DETAILS OF MEDICAL X-RAY INSTALLATION Pee Type of equipment: Model name: Wal ldenificaton : Distanoe from exposure a _ a (from centr of the ~ Status 1 _| Alte wals are entifed and distances of wais from the centre of the couchlequipment are ingigated in he layout drawing Layout drawing Indicates the cation of the mobi protective barier o Tayout erawing ndcales cool pana conrolroom, chest tend, windows, doors. o o a z 3 T__ | Layout drawing indicales chest stand or radiography equipment 5 __ | Layout drawing indicates windows; doors ¢ 7 3 g Tayout crewing signed and slamped by the customer" Z Tayout drawing is auontcted by supplier “The layout drawing sas pe values filed ns the e-LORA applcton, o ‘Ghost Sian i onthe oppose wal of control console and enirenos door Yes/No 70 | IFNO whether, a permanent protective barrier fs placed between operator and chest stand o FT| Hah ofthe window trom ouside fished floor of xray room > 2m Yes! Wo T2_| TN, whether sieking is provided on tho window upto” 2m a ‘tach crewing euthentcaed by suppliar in A4 size shoot (sale 1:50) Indoating detalsglven above. Verified by: Name: . ‘Signature of Customer Signature ofthe supplier Nem Designation Company