Radiation Protection of Patients (Postgraduate Medical Science) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521426693 ISBN 13: 9780521426695

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

This concise volume provides essential advice and guidelines for all those medical personnel involved in the administration of radiation for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. Legislation has been introduced in Europe and the UK to reduce patient radiation doses. In the UK, the Ionising Radiation (Protection of Patients Undergoing Medical Examination or Treatment) Regulations, known colloquially as the POPUMET Regulations, require medical personnel to have received essential training in radiation protection. This volume covers the background material required by those taking approved training courses and summarizes the core of knowledge that forms the basis of the POPUMET regulations.

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Book Description

Providing essential advice and guidelines, this volume covers the background material required by those taking approved training courses and summarizes the core of knowledge at the basis of the British Ionizing Radiation POPUMET regulations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521426693
• ISBN 13: 9780521426695
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168
• Editor: Wootton R.