Radiation dose management of pregnant patients, pregnant staff and paediatric patients :diagnostic and interventional radiology /

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"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Dosimetry -- 1.1. Physical phantoms simulating pregnancy and children -- 1.2. Thermoluminescence dosimeters (TLDs) and optically stimulated luminescence dosimeters (OSLDs) -- 1.3. Optically stimulated luminescence dosimeters (OSLDs) -- 1.4. Computational phantoms simulating pregnancy and children -- 1.5. Monte Carlo simulations and computational phantoms2. Biological effects of exposure to ionizing radiation during gestation and childhood -- 2.1. Biological effects to conceptus from ionizing radiation -- 2.2. Biological effects to children from ionizing radiation3. Parameters that influence conceptus and paediatric patient radiation dose from radiodiagnostic procedures -- 3.1. Radiography and fluoroscopy parameters that influence conceptus and paediatric dose / by A. Papadakis -- 3.2. CT parameters that influence conceptus and paediatric dose4. Amount of dose absorbed by the conceptus and paediatric patients from diagnostic and interventional radiology -- 4.1. Conceptus dose and radiation-induced risk associated with diagnostic and interventional X-ray examinations -- 4.2. Paediatric dose and radiation-induced risk associated with diagnostic and interventional X-ray examinations5. Methods to calculate conceptus and paediatric dose -- 5.1. Methods to calculate conceptus dose from diagnostic and interventional procedures -- 5.2. Methods to calculate paediatric dose from diagnostic and interventional procedures6. Optimization of radiological examinations performed during pregnancy -- 6.1. Radiography/fluoroscopy during pregnancy : methods for dose optimization -- 6.2. CT during pregnancy : methods for dose optimization7. Optimization of examinations performed on paediatric patients -- 7.1. Optimization of radiographic and fluoroscopic examinations performed on paediatric patients -- 7.2. Methods of dose optimization in CT 7-188. The management of (a) pregnant patients and (b) pregnant employees -- 8.1. The management of pregnant patients -- 8.2. The management of pregnant employees.Whenever a diagnostic or interventional X-ray examination of a pregnant patient is considered to be necessary, conceptus dose estimation is an essential step in assessing the radiogenic risks to the unborn child. Accurate estimation of embryo/fetus radiation dose is also needed after accidental exposure of a pregnant patient from an X-ray procedure. The exposure of pregnant patients to medical X-rays is often a complex case and involves emotionally sensitive issues for both prospective parents and physicians. Conceptus dose assessment is not always easy. Medical physicists should be able to assess conceptus doses and risks from diagnostic and interventional procedures and also to place the risk in a perspective from which an informed decision can be made. Pregnant medical professionals working with radiation have many misconceptions about the risks of ionizing radiation on the unborn child. Medical radiation workers of childbearing age should be aware that careful planning and dose optimization of examinations can address their concerns and permit, in the vast majority of cases, safe performance of procedures. Pediatric patients requiring diagnostic and interventional procedures are exposed to diagnostic and interventional X-rays. Pediatric patients are more sensitive to radiation than adults and, for this reason, accurate assessment of doses and risks is needed in these cases. Medical physicists should be able to assess paediatric doses and risks from diagnostic and interventional procedures. Several techniques and tools have been developed for dose optimization of radiographic, fluoroscopic, computed tomography and fluoroscopically-guided interventional pediatric procedures. The scan parameters should be adjusted for patient size and body region. Part of Series in Physics and Engineering in Medicine and Biology.Medical physicists.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.John Damilakis is full professor at the University of Crete, Faculty of Medicine and chairman of the Medical Physics Department at the University of Crete. He is President of the European Federation of Organizations in Medical Physics (EFOMP), and Chairman of the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) Education and Training committee. John Damilakis has more than 200 publications concerning research topics of medical radiation protection, CT dosimetry, embryo/fetal dosimetry, quality assurance and dosimetry in bone densitometry. Professor Damilakis has been awarded several prizes in recognition of his work in the field of medical physics.Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 6, 2020).

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Radiography.
Medical physics.
Fetus
Pregnant women
Pediatric radiography
Radiation
Pregnant Women.
Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation.
Diagnostic Imaging
Child.
Safety.
SCIENCE / Radiation.

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