Medical imaging is as central to patient care as are labs or pathology, and concern for radiation safety is as old as the field itself. These concerns have generated multiple mandates related to ...

The radiation dose from a nuclear medicine procedure is measured in units of sieverts (usually in millisieverts, mSv). The effective dose that needs to be administered during an investigation is ...

August 2005 Staff Administers Wrong Radiation Dose A 72-year-old man with cancer of the esophagus was to receive twice-daily treatments, but instead got only one a day for five days.

This medical test may cause cancer due to ‘unfathomable’ mistake — and it’s performed 93M ... Experts say the radiation doses they deliver can vary dramatically — and often exceed what ...

When testing approximately 48,000 CT machines in 17 hospitals, Smith-Bindman’s research found that 30% of the scanners emitted too high a radiation dose — and image quality was never a concern ...

Medical physicists at the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) have worked with the ...

Radiation dose management in medical imaging presents a number of challenges. Image quality must be optimized to aid diagnosis while minimizing the risk of patient or healthcare workers exposure ...