Electronic On-line Incident Reporting System (IRS) as a Tool for Risk Assessment in Radiation Therapy.

Background: Radiotherapy is one of the primary treatment options in cancer management, together with surgery and chemotherapy. Radiation therapy is technologically complex discipline involving professionals with various specialties, and using high energy radiation in treatment of wide range of different cancer types. Technical complexity, increasing number of patients, large workload, and delivery of radiation therapy treatment with lack of human, technical and financial resources in low and middle income countries creates environment with great potential to develop incidents.

Radiation protection and estimate of commercial aircrew effective doses in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Cosmic rays are the primary source of the daily exposure of aircrew and passengers to ionising radiation. This study aims to estimate the effective doses of ionising radiation for aircraft crews in Bosnia and Herzegovina by taking into consideration factors such as flight duration and altitude, as well as the geographical position of airports. The CARI-7 algorithm and neural network method were used in the analysis of data obtained from the Sarajevo International Airport.

Extremity dosimetry for exposed workers in positron emission tomography in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Occupational exposure in Bosnia and Herzegovina is regulated by the national regulation on radiation protection for occupational and public exposure. All radiation workers are required to be monitored using whole body passive thermoluminescent dosemeters and, in case of non-uniform external exposures, by dosemeters that would indicate dose to the most affected body parts. Exposed workers are almost exclusively employed in the medical field, and some of them work in nuclear medicine departments where they handle unsealed radioactive sources.

Utilisation of 3D Printing in the Manufacturing of an Anthropomorphic Paediatric Head Phantom for the Optimisation of Scanning Parameters in CT.

Computed tomography (CT) is a diagnostic imaging process that uses ionising radiation to obtain information about the interior anatomic structure of the human body. Considering that the medical use of ionising radiation implies exposing patients to radiation that may lead to unwanted stochastic effects and that those effects are less probable at lower doses, optimising imaging protocols is of great importance. In this paper, we used an assembled 3D-printed infant head phantom and matched its image quality parameters with those obtained for a commercially available adult head phantom using the imaging protocol dedicated for adult patients.

Iridocorneal Endothelial Syndrome: Case Report of Essential Progressive Iris Atrophy.

Background: Iridocorneal endothelial (ICE) syndrome is a group of ophthalmic disorders, first reported by Eagle and Yanoff in 1979, a disease characterized by abnormalities of the iris and the corneal endothelium, and mainly occurs unilaterally in young and middle-aged women, with no family history. ICE syndrome comprises a spectrum of three clinical variants: Progressive essential iris atrophy (corectopia, iris atrophy or iris hole), Chandler syndrome (corneal oedema with mild to absent iris change), and Cogan - Reese syndrome (nodular pigmented lesion of the iris).

Objective: We are presenting this case because of its rarity, diagnostic intricacy and therapeutic challenge.