New ICRP Recommendation―New Radiation Protection Principle and Standards

The new ICRP memorandum and quantities in radiation protection dosimetry.

Radiation risks and radiation protection training for healthcare professionals: ICRP and the Fukushima experience.

Radiation Protection Standards for Medical Investigations

Large-scale using of ionizing radiation for medical investigations has benefits and risks. Every country has national standards for radiation protection, defining responsibilities of individuals and organizations for radiation control. In spite of the rich legislation, the total cumulated dose absorbed by a patient during medical investigations is not cumulated or established in a unified manne...

Radiation safety: New international standards

by Abel J. Gonzalez B*y the end of the 1980s, a vast amount of new information had accumulated to prompt a new look at the standards governing protection against exposures to ionizing radiation and the safety of radiation sources. First and foremost, a re-evaluation of the radioepidemiological findings from Hiroshima and Nagasaki suggested that exposure to lowlevel radiation was riskier than pr...

Radiation protection of the eye lens in medical workers—basis and impact of the ICRP recommendations

The aim of this article was to explore the evidence for the revised European Union basic safety standard (BSS) radiation dose limits to the lens of the eye, in the context of medical occupational radiation exposures. Publications in the open literature have been reviewed in order to draw conclusions on the exposure profiles and doses received by medical radiation workers and to bring together t...