Proteção à radiação

Annals of the ICRP
ICRP PUBLICATION 121

Radiological Protection in Paediatric Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
Editor-in-Chief C.H. CLEMENT Associate Editor M. SASAKI Authors on behalf of ICRP P-L. Khong, H. Ringertz, V. Donoghue, D. Frush, M. Rehani, K. Appelgate, R. Sanchez

PUBLISHED FOR The International Commission on Radiological Protection by

Please cite this issue as ‘ICRP, 2013. Radiological protection in paediatric diagnostic and interventional radiology. ICRP Publication 121. Ann. ICRP 42(2).’
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EDITORIAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 ABSTRACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 1. INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2. BASIC CONCEPTS OF RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.1. Quantities and units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.2. Summary of biological basis for radiological protection. . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3. GENERAL ASPECTS OF RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION IN PAEDIATRIC DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1. Justification of diagnostic radiology procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2. Optimisation of radiological protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3. Quality criteria implementation and audit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION IN CONVENTIONAL PAEDIATRIC RADIOGRAPHY AND FLUOROSCOPY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1. Patient positioning and immobilisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2. Field size and x-ray beam limitation . . . . . . . . . . . . .