Population exposure to diagnostic use of ionizing radiation in The Netherlands

Health Physics
Marco J P BrugmansJohan Lembrechts

Abstract

The use of ionizing radiation for diagnostic medical procedures and the exposure of the Dutch population to this radiation were assessed for 1998. The annual average effective dose from diagnostic medical exposures has increased by 26% to 0.59 mSv per capita since the last inventory of medical radiation exposure in the Netherlands a decade ago. The population-averaged effective dose comprises x-ray procedures in hospitals (87%), nuclear medicine examinations (11%), mammography screening (1.5%), and extramural dentistry (0.2%). The rise has resulted mainly from an increase in frequency and patient dose for CT examinations and from vascular radiology. The increase in the number of CT examinations leveled off in the mid-1990's. Medically exposed people were found to be significantly older than the general population. Based on age distribution alone, an "age reduction factor" for the risk coefficient of 0.64 was found to apply to the medically exposed group. More information on patient dose for the complete set of procedures should, according to this study, become available.

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