Chapters 6 to 10

✍ Scribed by ICRP

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 76 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0146-6453
• DOI: 10.1016/j.icrp.2007.12.014

✦ Synopsis

The exposure of patients is deliberate. Except in radiation therapy, it is not the aim to deliver radiation dose, but rather to use the radiation to provide diagnostic information or to conduct an interventional procedure. Nevertheless, the dose is given deliberately and cannot be reduced indefinitely without prejudicing the intended outcome.