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✍ Scribed by ICRP

• Book ID: 103830128
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 51 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0146-6453
• DOI: 10.1016/j.icrp.2007.12.015

✦ Synopsis

11. INDIVIDUAL DOSE LIMITS

(95) It is not appropriate to apply dose limits to medical exposure of patients, because such limits would often do more harm than good. Often, there are concurrent chronic, severe, or even life-threatening medical conditions that are more critical than the radiation exposure. The emphasis is then on justification of the medical procedures and on the optimisation of radiological protection.