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Patient Radiation Safety and Risk

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Everyone is concerned about patient radiation dose. From 1993 through 2008, radiation dose attributed to medical radiation rose 82 % from 0.54 mSv to 3 mSv per capita. The largest component of the medical patient radiation dose was CT scanning (49 %). This is despite the fact that CT scanning makes up only 17 % of the total medical procedures that contributes to a patient’s radiation dose.

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  • Ionizing
  • Non-ionizing
  • Stochastic
  • Non-stochastic
  • Deterministic
  • ALARA
  • Background
  • Effective dose

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  1. Penn State Heart and Vascular Institute Department of Radiology, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Harjit Singh MD

  2. Department of Radiology, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Janet A. Neutze MD & Jonathan R. Enterline MD

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  1. Radiology, Penn State Heart and Vascular Institute, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA

    Harjit Singh

  2. Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA

    Janet A. Neutze

  3. Radiology, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA

    Jonathan R. Enterline

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Singh, H., Neutze, J.A., Enterline, J.R. (2015). Patient Radiation Safety and Risk. In: Singh, H., Neutze, J., Enterline, J. (eds) Radiology Fundamentals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10362-4_1

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