Title
Determination of diagnostic reference levels in general radiography in latin america
Date Issued
01 September 2013
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Blanco S.
Mora P.
Almonte N.
Benson N.
Blanco D.
Cárdenas J.
Gómez Y.D.
Edding O.
Escobar C.
Fonseca M.
Gamarra M.
Aguilar J.G.
Khoury H.J.
Quintero A.R.
Zuniga N.R.
Zaire E.
Nader A.
Publisher(s)
Oxford University Press
Abstract
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) through the International Action Plan on Radiation Protection of Patients and the International Commission on Radiological Protection have for some time carried out important efforts to assure that in the medical applications of the ionising radiations, the optimisation of radiological protection of patients is fundamental, to such a point that the IAEA includes it directly as a requirement for these practices (in its International Basic Safety Standards for Protection against Ionising Radiation and for the Safety of Radiation Sources (BSS)-GSR Part 1, 2011). For this reason, among the objectives of Regional Project RLA/9/057 and Regional Project RLA/9/067, the intention was to establish the dose references in conventional radiology for Latin America, for the purposes of determining whether these doses comply with the requirements of the BSS and to tend to improve practices, in order to minimise the dose received by the patients. © The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
Start page
303
End page
309
Volume
156
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Radiología, Medicina nuclear, Imágenes médicas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84889597395
PubMed ID
Source
Radiation Protection Dosimetry
ISSN of the container
01448420
Sponsor(s)
Susana Blanco1,*, Patricia Mora2, Narkiss Almonte3, Tony Benavente4, Nadja Benson5, Daniel Blanco6, Juan Cárdenas7, Yolanda Defaz Gómez8, Oscar Edding9, Carolina Escobar10, María Fonseca11, Mirtha Gamarra12, Juan García Aguilar13, Helen Jamil Khoury14, Ana Rosa Quintero15, Norma Roas Zuniga16, Edgar Zaire17 and Alejandro Nader18 1Department of Fac. Ing. UB, CONICET, C.A.B.A.,Buenos Aires, Argentina 2Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Atómicas, Nucleares y Moleculares, San josé, Costa Rica 3Dirección Nuclear, Comisión Nacional de Energía, Sto. Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic 4Instituto Peruano de Energía Nuclear (IPEN), Lima, Peru 5Dirección General de Salud, Ministerio de Salud, Panamá, UK 6Centro de Investigaciones Nucleares, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay 7Centro de Protección e Higiene de las Radiaciones (CPHR), La Habana, Cuba 8Hospital Oncológico SOLCA Nucleo de Quito, Quito, Ecuador 9Instituto de Salud Pública, Santiago de Chile, Chile 10Unidad Reguladora de Radiaciones Ionizantes (UNRA), Ministerio de Salud Pública y Acción Social, San Salvador, El Salvador 11Hospital Nacional Roosevelt, Guatemala City, Guatemala 12Ministerio de Salud Pública y Bienestar Social, Asunción, Paraguay 13Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares (ININ), Mexico City, México 14DEN/UFPE, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil 15Hospital Oncológico ‘Dr Luis Razetti’, Caracas, Venezuela 16Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua, Managua, Nicaragua 17Instituto Boliviano de Ciencia y Tecnología Nuclear, La Paz, Bolivia 18International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria
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