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Welcome
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Fernand Vermeersch (EAN Chairman) |
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Session 1 - Introduction and Scene Setting - International organisations
Chairperson: Gunnar Saxebøl (NRPA, Norway) |
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UNSCEAR - Data on medical exposures from a global point of view
(1.94 MB)
Ferid Shannoun (UNSCEAR) |
| 1.2 |
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ICRP and ALARA in the Medical Sector
(6.92 MB)
Madan M. Rehani (ICRP Committe 3) |
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WHO Global Intiative on Radiation Safety in Health Care Settings
(15.60 MB)
Maria del Rosario Pérez (WHO) |
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Medical exposure in the European Commission's proposal for revised Euratom radiation protection directive
(1.79 MB)
Georgi Simeonov (European Commission) |
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Session 1 (continued) - Introduction and scene setting - European societies and networks
Chairpersons: Maria del Rosario Pérez (WHO), Jürgen Kopp (Central Clinic Augsburg, Germany) |
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Justification and Optimization of Chest CT Imaging in children
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Catherine Owens (ESR - European Society of Radiology, ESPR - European Society of Paediatric Radiology ) |
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European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) - Overview of actions and initiatives on radiation protection with emphasis on ALARA
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Wolfgang Hechner (EANM) |
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Radiation protection and the implementation of the ALARA principle in radiation oncology - The perspective of European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO)
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Dag Rune Olsen (ESTRO) |
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European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (EFOMP) - Overview of actions and initiatives on radiation protection with emphasis on ALARA
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Stelios Christofides (EFOMP) |
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EFRS actions, initiatives and challenges on ALARA/radiation protection
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Graciano Paulo (EFRS - European Federation of Radiographer Societies, College of Health Technology of Coimbra, Portugal) |
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EURADOS - Overview of actions and initiatives on radiation protection
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Filip Vanhavere (SCK-CEN MOL, Belgium) |
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EMAN - The European Medical ALARA Network
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Anja Almén (SSM - Swedish Radiation Safety Authority , Sweden) |
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Session 2 - Tools for ALARA implementation in the medical sector
Chairpersons: Caroline Schieber (CEPN - Nuclear Protection Evaluation Center), Wolfgang Eschner (EANM - European Association of Nuclear Medicine) |
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Challenge to justification and optimization - Individual health assessment using CT
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Jürgen Griebel (BfS - Federal Office of Radiation Protection, Germany) |
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Setting referral criteria for diagnostic imaging - The French guidelines for the clinical use of medical imaging
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Philippe A. Grenier (Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, University Pierre & Marie Curie, France) |
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The Swiss system for collecting population dose data and establishing DRLs: A web-based solution
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Abbas Aroua (CHUV - UNIL - University Insitute for Radiation Physics, Switzerland) |
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Clinical auditing and quality assurance as tools in the implementation of ALARA in the medical sector
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Hannu Järvinen (STUK - Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Finland) |
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Introduction to Working Group sessions
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Peter Shaw (EAN secretary) |
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Session 3 - Practical ALARA implementation in the medical sector
Chairpersons: Annemarie Schmitt-Hannig (BfS, Germany), Hilde M. Olerud (NRPA, Norway) |
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Endovascular Brachytherapy with Re-188 after PTA in the Peripheral Blood Stream - ALARA in handling Beta-Emitters
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Jürgen Kopp (Central Clinic Ausburg, Germany) |
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ALARA in Handling Beta-Emitters - Measurement Techniques and Optimisation
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Ilona Barth (BfS, Germany) |
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The use of resolution recovery software in nuclear medicine from an ALARA perspective
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Steve Ebdon-Jackson (HPA - Health Protection Agency, UK) |
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International project on individual monitoring and radiation exposure levels in interventional cardiology (ISEMIR)
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Renato Padovani (Udine University Hospital, Italy) |
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The ORAMED project: Staff dosimetry in interventional radiology and nuclear medicine
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Laurent Donadille (IRSN - Institute of Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety, France) |
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Session 4 - ALARA culture in the medical sector
Chairpersons: Fernand Vermeersch (SCK-CEN Mol, Belgium), Madan M. Rehani (ICRP) |
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Stakeholder Involvement in Medical Practices: Report on HERCA WG Medical Application Action Plan with the CT manufacturers
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Philipp Trueb (Federal Office of Public Health, Switzerland) |
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QA and optimization in diagnostic radiology - a multi-disciplinary task: How to build a regional service to implement ALARA
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Anne Catrine Traegde Martinsen (Oslo University Hospital, Norway) |
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The Norwegian Program on Quality Assurance in Radiotherapy (KVIST) - Organisation, Benefits and Experiences
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Taran Paulsen Hellebust (NRPA, Norway) |
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The work in IEC, DICOM and IHE in continuous development of standards to improve radiation safety and performance of radiological equipment, and exchange of information between imaging modalities
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Bernard Aubert (IRSN, France) |
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Session 5 - ALARA competence and skills in the medical sector
Chairpersons: Annemarie Schmitt-Hannig (BfS, Germany), Hilde M. Olerud (NRPA, Norway) |
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Clinicians' justification of imaging: do radiation issues play a role?
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Lars Borgen (Buskerud Hospital and Buskerud University College, Norway) |
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Medical Physics Expert European Guidelines
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Stelios Christofides (EFOMP) on behalf of Eduardo Guibelalde (University Complutense of Madrid, Spain) |
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German recommendations on self-referred asymptomatic patients
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Birgit Keller (BMU - Federal Ministry for the Environment, Germany) |
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German situation on clinical audits
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Jürgen Kopp (Central Clinic Augsburg, Germany) |
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Experiences with focus on the medical sector from the IAEA IRSS mission to Spain
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Manuel Rodreguez-Marti (CSN - Nuclear Safety Council, Spain) |
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Session 6 - Feedback and Conclusions
Chairpersons: P. Shaw, P. Croüail (EAN) |
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Report from the Working Group 1A: Challenges in the optimisation of patient and staff radiation protection in the medical sector
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(The PPT is the result of the Working Group discussions. It has not been modified by the Editorial Team) |
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Report from the Working Group 1B: Challenges in the optimisation of patient and staff radiation protection in the medical sector
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(The PPT is the result of the Working Group discussions. It has not been modified by the Editorial Team) |
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Report from the Working Group 2: Policy and Tools for Implementing the ALARA Principle in the Medical Sector
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(The PPT is the result of the Working Group discussions. It has not been modified by the Editorial Team) |
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Report from the Working Group 3: Education, training and communication to improve ALARA in the medical sector
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Report from the Working Group 4: Technical developments and quality assurance in the implementation of the ALARA principle in the medical sector
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(The PPT is the result of the Working Group discussions. It has not been modified by the Editorial Team) |
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Conclusions and recommendations
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