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3rd European IRPA Congress

3rd European IRPA Congress. 14-18 June 2010 Helsinki, Finland Proceedings available: www.irpa2010europe.com Report by Ritva Bly, STUK, Finland Renate Czarwinski, IAEA. Towards safer and more effective use of radiation in paediatric healthcare.

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3rd European IRPA Congress

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  1. 3rd European IRPA Congress 14-18 June 2010 Helsinki, Finland Proceedings available: www.irpa2010europe.com Report by Ritva Bly, STUK, Finland Renate Czarwinski, IAEA Third European IRPA Congress 2010, Helsinki, Finland

  2. Towards safer and more effective use of radiation in paediatric healthcare • Higher vulnerability of children to ionizing radiation (developing and growing tissues, longer life-span to express long-term radiation induced effect); scientific evidence on cancer risks  exists but further research is still needed. • Optimization of protection requires refining of parameters according to patient weight/size ("child-sizing" protocols). This customizing procedures means making a compromise between patient dose and acceptable noise in the image (especially in CT and PET/CT).  Third European IRPA Congress 2010, Helsinki, Finland

  3. Radiation protection in medical use of radiation • Clinical audit is a way to monitor justification. The implementation of referral guidelines should be promoted. • Promotion of safety culture; radiation protection should be part of continued education of referrers (physicians and dentists) as well as radiological practitioners. Multidisciplinary team (radiologist, nuclear medicine specialist, medical physicist, radiographer) should learn from each other. Third European IRPA Congress 2010, Helsinki, Finland

  4. Collective effective dose from “TOP20” examinations of 12 European countries in 2008 How about the population dose in the whole Europe? Aroua A. et.al. Collective doses from medical exposures: an intercomparison of the “TOP20” radiological examinations based on EC guidelines RP 154; European IRPA 2010, Helsinki

  5. STUDY ON EUROPEAN POPULATION DOSES FROM MEDICAL EXPOSURE (DOSE DATAMED 2, DDM2) ENER/10/NUCL/SI2.581237 28 December 2010 – 27 March 2013 www.ddmed.eu Workshop on European Population Doses from Medical Exposure 24-26 April 2012 IRPA13 P02.09 European population dose per caput is 1 mSv STUK Ritva Bly

  6. INTERNATIONAL POPULATION DOSES FROM RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES PER CAPUT Thank you! mSv STUK Ritva Bly

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