The Effect of Utilising Age and Sex Dependent Factors for Calculating Detriment from Medical Irradiation
- 1 August 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Radiation Protection Dosimetry
- Vol. 15 (4) , 269-271
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a079700
Abstract
Proposals have been made for a quantity that can be used to estimate possible detriment from medical radiology better than the ICRP's collective effective dose equivalent. One such approach utilises age and sex dependent 'weighting' factors. The magnitude of the effect obtained by utilising such factors when applied to an actual population has not been previously assessed. When age and sex dependent weighting factors are applied to diagnostic medical radiology for all hospital examinations conducted in the United States in 1980, estimates of detriment are reduced by one-third.Keywords
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