Basic requirements for systems of dose management and recording in imaging diagnostic examinations
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https://doi.org/10.37004/sefm/2020.21.1.004Keywords:
dose recording, optimization, reference levels for the diagnosis, dose indicator devicesAbstract
Directive 2013/59/Euratom of 5 December 2013 laying down basic safety standards for protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation, establishes in section 28 of its introduction that more strict requirements should be proposed in what information to patients, recording and notification of doses in medical procedures, use of reference levels for diagnosis (RLD) and availability of dose indicator devices concerns. Due to the development of said concepts in both the European and Spanish regulation (Real Decreto 601/2019 of 18 October 2019 about justification and optimization of the use of ionising radiation for radiological protection in medical exposures) the Spanish Societies of Radiological Protection (SEPR) and Medical Physics (SEFM) have created a work group whose task is to make a report describing the requirements that a system for the recording and management of doses should fulfil.
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