Japanese Journal of Radiological Technology
Online ISSN : 1881-4883
Print ISSN : 0369-4305
ISSN-L : 0369-4305
RADIATION DAMAGE AND MEDICAL RADIATION EXPOSURE
WALTER J. RUSSELL
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1976 Volume 31 Issue 6 Pages 579-591

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Our assessments of medical X-ray dose and of radiologic practice in Hiroshima and Nagasaki revealed numerous deficiencies in radiologic procedures which, if eradicated, would greatly reduce doses to patients and their examiners. The urgent reasons for improving these areas are stressed, for example, by results of recent laboratory investigations and by the late effects resulting from exposure to the ionizing radiation of the atomic bombs. Some of these studies indicate that radiation effects can be anticipated from much lower doses than was previously thought. Guidelines and cautionary measures by which doses to patients and their examiners can be effectively reduced are cited.

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