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Overview of ICRP Committee 3 'Protection in Medicine'.

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Vañó, E; Miller, DL; Rehani, MM
Published in: Ann ICRP
June 2015

According to the 2011-2017 strategic plan, Committee 3 develops recommendations and guidance for protection of patients, staff, and the public against radiation exposure when ionising radiation is used for medical diagnosis, therapy, or biomedical research. This paper presents an overview of the work that Committee 3 has accomplished in recent years and describes its current work. The International Commission on Radiological Protection reports dealing with radiological protection in medicine from 2000 to the present cover topics on education and training in radiological protection; preventing accidental exposures in radiation therapy; doses to patients from radiopharmaceuticals; radiation safety aspects of brachytherapy; release of patients after therapy with unsealed radionuclides; and managing radiation dose in interventional radiology, digital radiology, computed tomography, paediatrics, cardiology, and other medical specialties. Current work deals with radiological protection in ion beam therapy, occupational protection in brachytherapy, justification in imaging, radiological protection in cone-beam computed tomography, occupational protection in interventional procedures, diagnostic reference levels for diagnostic and interventional imaging, and an update of an earlier publication on doses to patients and staff from radiopharmaceuticals. Committee 3 is also involved in preparation of a document on effective dose and its use in medicine.

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Ann ICRP

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EISSN

1872-969X

Publication Date

June 2015

Volume

44

Issue

1 Suppl

Start / End Page

24 / 32

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Radioisotopes
  • Radiation Protection
  • Occupational Exposure
  • Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
  • International Agencies
  • Humans
  • Environmental Exposure
  • 3202 Clinical sciences
  • 1103 Clinical Sciences
 

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Vañó, E., Miller, D. L., & Rehani, M. M. (2015). Overview of ICRP Committee 3 'Protection in Medicine'. Ann ICRP, 44(1 Suppl), 24–32. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146645314559351
Vañó, E., D. L. Miller, and M. M. Rehani. “Overview of ICRP Committee 3 'Protection in Medicine'.Ann ICRP 44, no. 1 Suppl (June 2015): 24–32. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146645314559351.
Vañó E, Miller DL, Rehani MM. Overview of ICRP Committee 3 'Protection in Medicine'. Ann ICRP. 2015 Jun;44(1 Suppl):24–32.
Vañó, E., et al. “Overview of ICRP Committee 3 'Protection in Medicine'.Ann ICRP, vol. 44, no. 1 Suppl, June 2015, pp. 24–32. Pubmed, doi:10.1177/0146645314559351.
Vañó E, Miller DL, Rehani MM. Overview of ICRP Committee 3 'Protection in Medicine'. Ann ICRP. 2015 Jun;44(1 Suppl):24–32.

Published In

Ann ICRP

DOI

EISSN

1872-969X

Publication Date

June 2015

Volume

44

Issue

1 Suppl

Start / End Page

24 / 32

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Radioisotopes
  • Radiation Protection
  • Occupational Exposure
  • Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
  • International Agencies
  • Humans
  • Environmental Exposure
  • 3202 Clinical sciences
  • 1103 Clinical Sciences