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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on June 13, 2009
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2009 135(3):216-217; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncp104
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Radiation Protection in Newer Medical Imaging Technologies: PET/CT

Dawn Banghart

CHP, Stanford University

Author: International Atomic Energy Agency
Published by: International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
ISBN-978-92-0-106808-8, 41 pp (2008) Euro 28 (Soft cover)

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The new IAEA Safety Report Series No. 58 Radiation Protection in Newer Medical Imaging Technologies: Positron emission tomography/computerised tomography (PET/CT) is a document filling a long-needed gap. The report acts as a concise pocket guide to patient and staff radiation safety at a time when the number of scans utilising both PET and CT has grown exponentially. Just look at the explosion: in the 1970s 2 slice CTs, in the 1980s 4 slice, in the late 1990s 8, 16 and 32 and to the current 64 slice CT. Using a twist on Theodore Roosevelt's ‘if you build it they will come’ manufacturers have learned ‘if you build it they will scan’.

PET imaging evolved separately and earlier than CTs providing the imaging of abnormal cell metabolism studies permitting cancer . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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