Radiation Protection of Patients
Information to help health professionals achieve safer use of radiation in medicine for
the benefit of patients.
Methods for avoiding accidental exposures in radiotherapy available and training material in the form of power point slides in many areas is available for free download. In addition information for occupational protection in medical exposure is available.
Resource Information
| Quality Level |
Quality-checked by NS Professional staff |
| Completeness |
Comprehensive |
| Update Frequency |
Continually |
| Last Resource Update |
2012 |
| Subject |
Nuclear Medicine; Nutrition; Medical Physics; Medical Applications of Radioisotopes |
| Organizational Source |
Nuclear Safety |
| Data Type |
Documents |
| Keywords |
Human Health; paediatric radiology; pregnancy; dental radiology; Patient protection; medical exposure; computed tomography; PET/CT; radiation risks; radiation dose; cardiology; Nuclear Medicine; Radiotherapy; digital radiology; Radiology; mammography |
| Contact Point |
patient.protection@iaea.org |
| Page Authors |
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