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Irradiator Commissioning and Dosimetry for Assessment of LQ α and β Parameters, Radiation Dosing Schema, and in vivo Dose Deposition
Published on: March 11, 2021
[Control of health risks in radiodiagnosis: a historic approach]
Marcus Vinicius Teixeira Navarro1, Handerson Jorge Dourado Leite, Josemir da Cruz Alexandrino
1Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológicada Bahia, Brasil. navarro@cefetba.br
Abstract:
This paper presents the history of the discovery of ionizing radiation, as well as its biological effects and the resulting need to control subsequent health risks. It describes the historic evolution of risk control in radiodiagnosis in Brazil, demonstrating that it may be associated not only to the dose received, but also to errors in diagnosis and to costs to the health system. It is stressed that sanitary regulations have a broad remit of social co-responsibility to involve all the players with a view to safeguarding health.
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