Open AccessTowards an integrated medical system for radiological medical imaging investigations
Author(s) -
Lidia Dobrescu,
Silvius Stanciu,
Cezar Pleşca,
Armand Ropot
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
romanian journal of military medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2501-2312
pISSN - 1222-5126
DOI - 10.55453/rjmm.2017.120.1.1
Subject(s) - radiological weapon , medical radiation , romanian , medical physics , medicine , legislation , radiation protection , nuclear medicine , radiology , political science , law , philosophy , linguistics
The continuously increasing number of medical investigations using radiological methods imposes the strong necessity of informing patients about benefits and risks regarding radiation absorbed doses. Tracking the radiation doses absorbed by patients must be a future challenge of any medical system. The effective doses received by patients in many types of medical investigations must be calculated, transformed, recorded and cumulated. Doctors and patients must be very responsible in prescribing or demanding new radiological medical investigations. Radiological standards, legislation, guidelines, programmers and practice supervised by international commissions on radiology protection must include new specific measures for patients’ cumulated doses. A pilot Romanian project had tried to accomplish some of these tasks.