TY - BOOK TI - Radiation Protection. Chapter 24 AB - Chapter 21, in describing basic radiation biology and radiation effects, demonstrates the need to have a system of radiation protection that allows the many beneficial uses of radiation to be realized while ensuring detrimental radiation effects are either prevented or minimized. This can be achieved with the twin objectives of preventing the occurrence of deterministic effects and of limiting the probability of stochastic effects to a level that is considered acceptable. In a radiology facility, consideration needs to be given to the patient, the staff involved in performing the radiological procedures, members of the public and other staff that may be in the radiology facility, carers and comforters of patients undergoing procedures, and persons who may be undergoing a radiological procedure as part of a biomedical research project. This chapter discusses how the objectives given above are fulfilled through a system of radiation protection and how such a system should be applied practically in a radiology facility. AU - "Sutton, D. [Ninewells Hospital, Dundee (United Kingdom)]" AU - "Collins, L. T. [Westmead Hospital, Sydney (Australia)]" AU - "Le Heron, J. [International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)]" KW - "61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY" KW - "BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS" KW - "PATIENTS" KW - "PROBABILITY" KW - "RADIATION PROTECTION" KW - "RADIOBIOLOGY" KW - "RADIOLOGY" KW - "STOCHASTIC PROCESSES" KW - "WHO" DO - https://doi.org/ UR - https://www.osti.gov/etdeweb/servlets/purl/22360647 PB - IAEA; Vienna (International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)) CY - IAEA PY - 2014 DA - 2014-09-15 LA - English J2 - [] VL - C1 - International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria) C2 - C3 - C4 - C5 - Also available on-line: http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1564webNew-74666420.pdf; Enquiries should be addressed to IAEA, Marketing and Sales Unit, Publishing Section, E-mail: sales.publications@iaea.org; Web site: http://www.iaea.org/books L3 - Other Information: Refs., figs., tabs.; Related Information: In: Diagnostic radiology physics: A handbook for teachers and students. Endorsed by: American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Asia-Oceania Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics, European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics| by Dance, D.R. [Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford (United Kingdom)]; Christofides, S. [New Nicosia General Hospital (Cyprus)]; Maidment, A.D.A. [University of Pennsylvania (United States)]; McLean, I.D. [International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)]; Ng, K.H. (ed.) [University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)]| 710 p. ER -