Population dose from medical diagnostic exposure in Taiwan

C. J. Tung; C. H. Yang; C. Y. Yeh; T. R. Chen

doi:10.1093/rpd/ncr162

Population dose from medical diagnostic exposure in Taiwan

C. J. Tung^*, C. H. Yang, C. Y. Yeh, T. R. Chen

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Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences

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Medical exposure showed a continuous increasing trend. This trend was due to the growth of diagnostic procedures such as computed tomography (CT) and interventional fluoroscopy (IVF). In the present work, results of a recent study on medical exposure in Taiwan are reported. This study analysed data from the National Health Insurance Research Database. Surveyed data on the dose indices, including the entrance surface dose in radiography, dose area product in fluoroscopy, CT dose index in CT and mean glandular dose in mammography, were applied. Using programmes and databases, dose indices were converted to the effective dose. For the year 2008, individual effective doses in Taiwan were estimated as 0.16, 0.37, 0.12 and 0.12 mSv for conventional radiography and fluoroscopy, CT, IVF and nuclear medicine, respectively. The total collective effective dose and the effective dose per individual for medical exposure were 17 788 person-Sv and 0.77 mSv, respectively.

Original language	English
Article number	ncr162
Pages (from-to)	248-251
Number of pages	4
Journal	Radiation Protection Dosimetry
Volume	146
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncr162
State	Published - 07 2011

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