Background/introduction
The evolution of medical science and the growing pace of innovation and deployment of medical technology have led to a situation where most of the artificial ionising radiation exposure of the European population is due to medical procedures.
Though most exposures result in low to moderate doses in most tissues,
there is a need to evaluate their health effects and optimise dose reduction practices and dose evaluation tools.
MEDIRAD aims to enhance the scientific bases and clinical practice of radiation protection in the medical field...
Description of activity and work performed
The MEDIRAD Project consists of six interdependent and complimentary work packages (WP),
each of which contains tasks and deliverables vital to the project's success.
MEDIRAD work includes:
Developing a tool to determine image quality to maximise optimisation of RP in medical imaging;
Improving and developing new individual organ/anatomical structure dosimetry from chest CT,
I131 administration,
fluoroscopy guided procedures,
hybrid imaging,
and radiotherapy (RT) for breast cancer and interlinks with image quality measures;
Conducting epidemiological studies of the consequences of RT and CT scanning;
Identifying potential...
Conclusion and recommendations
Medical radiation is an essential tool both in diagnosis and treatment in medicine.
The use of ionising radiation in medicine has been steadily increasing,
and this trend is set to continue,
with obvious health benefits for the population thanks to improved diagnostic and therapy technologies.
However,
the increasing use of new modalities both for diagnosis and treatment also raises a number of issues in radiological protection of patients and medical workers,
as the population’s average medical exposure levels are continually rising.
For the first time,...
Personal/organisational information
The project is coordinated by EIBIR:
[email protected]
This project has received funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2014-2018 under grant agreement No 755523.
Disclaimer: This publication reflects only the author’s views.
The European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.
References
http://www.medirad-project.eu/
http://www.eibir.org/
