Congress:
EuroSafe Imaging 2019
Keywords:
Action 5 - Performance indicators for radiation protection management, Action 9 - Facilitation of research in advanced topics of radiation protection, Radioprotection / Radiation dose, CT, Radiation safety, Education and training
Authors:
J. Damilakis, C. Hoeschen
DOI:
10.26044/esi2019/ESI-0119
Description of activity and work performed
Since becoming a legal entity on October 1,
2017,
EURAMED’s work has included: participation in the ICRP-ERPW 2017 (International Symposium on the System of Radiological Protection European Radiological Protection Research Week) in Paris and participation in the European Radiation Protection Week in Rovinj,
Croatia in October 2018,
including several sessions dedicated to the medical field.
EURAMED also engaged in a joint road mapping exercise led by the CONCERT Project,
which EURAMED joined as a project partner in 2018,
and initiated its own roadmap development,
for which a working group has been established with representatives from EURAMED’s five founding societies,
whose input is in the process of being collected.
The joint roadmap led by the CONCERT project is seen as a guide for future strategies and funding in this field.
The mapping exercise showed four contexts for which radiation protection may be required,
namely: i) human activities related to medical therapy and diagnosis using radionuclides and x rays,
protons or ions; ii) human activities related to nuclear energy applications and other industrial applications for ionising radiation not related to medical applications; iii) human activities related to the use of natural resources,
containing naturally occurring radionuclides (NORM / TENORM); and,
iv) natural radiation as source of ionising radiation.
The exercise defined “optimised radiation protection in medical applications of ionising radiation” as one of the major challenges in radiation protection research and development.
Furthermore,
EURAMED has been approved as an International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) Special Liaison Organisation and presented its mission and activities at an ICRP meeting in October.
EURAMED has encouraged the medical community to develop research proposals for the Euratom 2018 calls and has itself participated in the SERENADE project proposal addressing the call ‘Strategy for the Exploitation of Research Results Funded under Euratom Research and Training Programmes in the Field of Radiation Protection’.
In 2019,
EURAMED will participate in the IAEA’s International Symposium on Standards,
Applications and Quality Assurance in Medical Radiation Dosimetry (IDOS 2019).
IDOS 2019 aims to provide a forum at which advances in radiation dosimetry,
radiation medicine,
radiation protection and associated standards made over the last decade can be disseminated and scientific knowledge exchanged.
It will take an active role in the 2019 European Radiation Protection Week to be held in Stockholm and aims to publish its research roadmap in the course of the year.