Patient Doses in the Netherlands
- 1 June 1991
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Radiation Protection Dosimetry
- Vol. 36 (2-4) , 265-268
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a081010
Abstract
Contributions to the population dose due to medical applications of ionising radiation are presented. It appears that contributions due to radiotherapy and X ray diagnosis are of comparable magnitude. To account for the age dependency of the radiation risks, contributions in terms of somatically significant dose equivalent are calculated as 0.3 mSv per caput per annum for X ray diagnosis and as 0.2 mSv per caput per annum for radiotherapy, the latter referring to only doses to organs outside the target volume.Keywords
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