Practical Radiation Protection in Healthcare

The application of radiation to medical problems plays an ever-increasing role in diagnosis and treatment of disease. It is essential that medical physicists have the knowledge, understanding and practical skills to implement radiation protection as new techniques are developed. Practical Radiation Protection in Healthcare provides a practical guide for medical physicists and others involved with radiation protection in the healthcare environment. The guidance is based on principles set out in current recommendations of the International Commission for Radiological Protection and methods developed by a variety of professional bodies. Written by practitioners experienced in the field this practical reference manual covers both established techniques and new areas of application. This new edition has be fully revised and updated to cover new requirements linked to the increased knowledge of radiation effects, and the development of new technology. Each specialist area is covered in a separate chapter to allow easy reference with individual chapters being assigned to different types of non-ionising radiations. Tabulated data is included to allow the reader to carry out calculations for situations encountered frequently without reference to further texts. Review from previous edition This is the book I have been seeking for years to use as the text for my radiation protection course for graduate medical physics students... a superb textbook for all those interested in radiation protection in medicine. I highly recommend it to professional medical physicists, students and teachers. Medical Physics, Vol 30, No 5 The text is easily readable and more than adequately delivers the objectives of the editors... The contributors and editors should be commended on the production of such an excellent text. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Vol 106, No 2PART I. IONISING RADIATIONS: HAZARDS, DETECTION AND MEASUREMENT ; 1. The Development of Radiation Protection ; 2. Interaction of Ionising Radiations with Matter ; 3. Biological Effects of Ionising Radiation ; 4. Radiation Measurements ; PART II. PROTECTION AGAINST IONISING RADIATIONS ; 5. Ionising Radiation Legislation ; 6. Principles and Control Methods ; 7. Operational Radiation Protection ; 8. Personal Monitoring ; 9. Control of Radioactive Substances ; 10. Intervention, Incidents and Emergencies ; PART III. IONISING RADIATION IN MEDICINE AND RESEARCH ; 11. Risk Control in Medicine ; 12. Diagnostic Radiology: Equipment ; 13. Diagnostic Radiology: Facility ; 14. Diagnostic Radiology: Patient Dosimetry ; 15. CT Dosimetry ; 16. Interventional Radiology ; 17. Nuclear Medicine and Radionuclide Laboratories ; 18. The Nuclear Medicine Patient ; 19. Radiotherapy: External Beam Therapy ; 20. Radiotherapy: Brachytherapy ; PART IV. NON-IONISING RADIATION ; 21. Lasers ; 22. Non-Coherent Optical Radiation Sources ; 23. Electromagnetic Fields ; 24. Magnetic Resonance ; 25. Ultrasound