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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on November 3, 2009
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/ncp248
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IAEA SAFETY SERIES REPORT SERIES: NO. 60: ‘RADIATION PROTECTION IN NEWER MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNIQUES: CARDIAC CT’

IAEA SAFETY SERIES REPORT SERIES: NO. 61: ‘RADIATION PROTECTION IN NEWER MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNIQUES: CT COLONOGRAPHY’

Dawn Banghart, CHP

Stanford University

Ralph H. Thomas

University of California (Retired)
Moraga, California

IAEA SAFETY SERIES REPORT SERIES: NO. 60: ‘RADIATION PROTECTION IN NEWER MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNIQUES: CARDIAC CT’
Published by: International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
ISBN-978-92-0-112808-8, 19 pp. (2008). Euro 28 (Soft cover)

IAEA SAFETY SERIES REPORT SERIES: NO. 61: ‘RADIATION PROTECTION IN NEWER MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNIQUES: CT COLONOGRAPHY’
Published by: International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
ISBN-978-92-0-1113805-8, 27 pp. (2008). Euro 28 (Soft cover)

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   INTRODUCTION
 
The new technologies associated with computed tomography (CT), such as multislice/detector cardiac imaging and CT colonography, are rapidly changing with time and show remarkable advances. The advantage of the application of these techniques is increasingly improved imaging, leading to the better diagnosis of disease, particularly cancer. The disadvantage of these techniques is that the broader application of CT is today now one of the more dose-intensive areas emerging in radiology and cardiology. The undoubted potential patient benefit will have to be weighed against ‘the cost of the radiation burden to the individual patient, and possibly to the community’ (Safety Series Report 60).

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has published three reports in its Safety Series Reports (SSR) under the general title Radiation Protection in Newer Medical Imaging Techniques. These reports provide guidance and advice for those involved in all aspects of radiation protection related to these newer medical . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   SAFETY SERIES REPORT 60: ‘RADIATION PROTECTION IN NEWER MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNIQUES: CARDIAC CT’
 

   SAFETY SERIES REPORT 61: RADIATION PROTECTION IN NEWER MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNIQUES: CT COLONOGRAPHY
 

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