Chapter 7

✍ Scribed by ICRP

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 65 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0146-6453
• DOI: 10.1016/j.icrp.2007.10.007

✦ Synopsis

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH (322) Medical exposures are predominantly delivered to individuals (patients) undergoing diagnostic examinations, interventional procedures, or radiation therapy. Other individuals caring for and comforting patients are also exposed to radiation. These individuals include parents and others, normally family or close friends, who hold children during diagnostic procedures or may come close to patients following the administration of radiopharmaceuticals or during brachytherapy. Exposure to members of the general public from released patients also occurs, but this exposure is almost always very small. In addition, volunteers in biomedical research often undergo medical procedures involving radiation exposure that are similar to procedures performed on patients. Medical exposure refers to all these types of exposures, and the present chapter, in particular, covers the following: