Health Physics - Standards
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Monday, November 23, 2009

International perspectives on quality assurance and new techniques in radiation medicine: outcomes of an IAEA conference.

30 Dec 2007 The International Atomic Energy Agency organized an international conference called, "Quality Assurance and New Techniques in Radiation Medicine" (QANTRM). It dealt with quality assurance (QA) in all aspects of radiation medicine (diagnostic ... Read more...

The American Board of Radiology Perspective on Maintenance of Certification: Part IV: Practice quality improvement in radiologic physics.

30 Oct 2007 Recent initiatives of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) in the area of maintenance of certification (MOC) have been reflective of the response of the medical community to address public concerns regarding quality of care, medical ... Read more...

The work of committee 2 of ICRP on internal dosimetry.

11 Jun 2007 Following publication of new recommendations by ICRP, a series of publications on Occupational Intakes of Radionuclides (OIR) will give both dose coefficients for intakes of radionuclides and data for the interpretation of bioassay information. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Health Physics - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Editorial: international certification of medical physicists. 9 Feb 2009
• 2008 William A. Mcadams Outstanding Service Award: Presented to James S. Willison at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 13-17 July 2008. 29 Nov 2008
• Supervision requirements for qualified medical physicists. 30 Aug 2008
• De-fragmenting standards. 19 Aug 2008
• Point/counterpoint. The physics components of the ACR MRI Accreditation Program are overly tedious and beyond what is needed to ensure good patient care. 30 Jul 2008
• Reviewing papers for Medical Physics. 30 Mar 2008
• International perspectives on quality assurance and new techniques in radiation medicine: outcomes of an IAEA conference. 30 Dec 2007
• The American Board of Radiology Perspective on Maintenance of Certification: Part IV: Practice quality improvement in radiologic physics. 30 Oct 2007
• The ICRP 2007 recommendations. 10 Oct 2007
• Point/Counterpoint. Peer reviews of medical physics practices often yield little information because the AAPM has not been proactive in developing appropriate peer-review guidelines. 29 Sep 2007
• The work of committee 2 of ICRP on internal dosimetry. 11 Jun 2007
• Recommendations for radioembolization of hepatic malignancies using yttrium-90 microsphere brachytherapy: a consensus panel report from the radioembolization brachytherapy oncology consortium. 29 Apr 2007
• Radiation protection in medicine. ICRP Publication 105. 30 Dec 2006
• A time of opportunity in the education of medical physicists: Report of a multi-organizational summit on the education of medical physicists. 30 Aug 2006
• Point/Counterpoint. The proposed MOC requirements for physicists are reasonable. 29 Jun 2006
• A commentary on some inconsistencies in the icrp 2005 recommendations: exclusion levels. 29 Jun 2006
• Maintenance of certification in radiologic physics. 30 Mar 2006
• Therapeutic radiation physics primer. 30 Jan 2006
• Logistics of therapy with the ibritumomab tiuxetan regimen. 30 Dec 2005
• Third party brachytherapy seed calibrations and physicist responsibilities. 30 Dec 2005

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Technical information about 'Health Physics'

Definition: The science concerned with problems of radiation protection relevant to reducing or preventing radiation exposure, and the effects of ionizing radiation on humans and their environment.

Descriptor UI: D006283

Alternative terms: Health Physics; Physics, Health; Radiologic Physics; Physics, Radiologic;

Related Mesh Headings: Radiation Monitoring; Radiation Protection; Radiometry;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: H01.671.368; H02.229.333;

History Note: 73(67)

Technical Notes: SPEC: SPEC qualif; physics or phys principles in the field of med = specific med term (IM) + PHYSICS (NIM) or specific phys principle (IM), as "The physics of brachytherapy" = BRACHYTHERAPY (IM) + PHYSICS (NIM)