Mora Ramírez, ErickCambronero Soto, Víctor AlonsoFonseca Sáenz, Gerardo Antonio2019-10-082021-06-172019-10-082021-06-172016https://repositorio.sibdi.ucr.ac.cr/handle/123456789/8888Tesis (licenciatura en imagenología diagnóstica y terapéutica)--Universidad de Costa Rica. Facultad de Medicina. Escuela de Tecnologías en Salud, 2016Nuclear medicine has become one of the diagnostic and therapeutic tools used today for the treatment of multiple diseases. Hundreds of scientific studies have been conducted to prove the benefits, contraindications, hazards and radiation safety studies with high dose radioisotope, but little has been discussed and written about the sealed sources used for quality control nuclear medicine equipment. The low activity sealed sources (comparad with those used in radiotherapy), lack of scientific interest and the absence of radiological accidents caused by these sources are the main reasons for the nuclear medicine departments of Hospitals and San Juan de Dios Hospital Clinical Biblical not have and I or have little specific information on management, quality control and disposal of sealed sources. The objectives of the final graduation revolve around the development of a guide on management, quality control and disposal of sealed sources. To achieve the objectives, in various literatura sources it was used, including operating procedures of nuclear medicine departments, Regulatory nuclear medicine of the Ministry of Health of Costa Rica and bibliography lnternational (books, magazines, articles published on the web ). The investigation concluded that the development of a guide for handling, quality control and final disposal of radioactiva sources sealed employed in quality control in the departments of Nuclear Medicine of the Hospital San Juan de Dios and Hospital Clinical Biblical is an element paramount for radiation safety of all health professionals who work in these facilities and the safety of these facilities.spaCONTAMINACION RADIACTIVA - PREVENCIONDISPOSICION DE RESIDUOS RADIACTIVOS - GUIASFUENTE RADIACTIVA SELLADAFUENTE RADIACTIVA SELLADA - MEDIDAS DE SEGURIDAD - GUIASMEDICINA NUCLEAR - APARATOS E INSTRUMENTOS - CONTROL DE CALIDADMEDICINA NUCLEAR - MEDIDAS DE SEGURIDADRADIACION - MEDIDAS DE SEGURIDAD - GUIASHospital San Juan de Dios (Costa Rica). Servicio de Medicina Nuclear - APARATOS E INSTRUMENTOS - CONTROL DE CALIDADHospital Clínica Bíblica (Costa Rica). Servicio de Medicina Nuclear - APARATOS E INSTRUMENTOS - CONTROL DE CALIDADproyecto fin de carrera