Conference Paper
Opportunities and Challenges for Medical Physicists in the new European Union "Medical Exposures" Directive*
P.P. Dendy
Addenbrookes Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QQ (UK)
Manuscript received: June 1, 2000.
Accepted for publication: July 5, 2000.
Abstract
A new Council Directive from the European Union has set out revised guidelines on health protection of individuals against the dangers of ionising radiation in relation to medical exposure. This paper summarises the ways in which the Directive is likely to change the role of physics in diagnostic radiology and discusses some of the opportunities and challenges that this provides for medical physicists.
KEY WORDS: Diagnostic radiology; EFOMP; patient protection.