Southern Urals Biophysics Institute, Russian Federation
Brief summary
The article presents a literature review on the problem of assessing the long-term effects of exposure to diagnostic ionizing radiation. An assessment of the current state of the problem, a characteristic of the sources of diagnostic exposure by the dose levels is given. The main approaches to assessing radiogenic risk of low doses and the possibility of their use in assessing the long-term effects of diagnostic exposure of patients are described. Comparative results of radiogenic risk assessment for external exposure from various industrial sources in wide dose ranges are presented. Particular attention is paid to publications containing the results of studies evaluating the risk of diagnostic exposure during computed tomography, which makes a significant contribution to patient?s dose burden. The main factors affecting the uncertainty of the estimates of radiation risk in the low-dose area typical for diagnostic exposure are described. The expediency of further studying the radiation risk in the field of low doses, in particular, epidemiological studies in the Mayak worker cohort, the first nuclear enterprise in former USSR, is shown.
Key words
medical exposure, diagnostic exposure, radiation risk, X-ray, CT, computed tomography, Mayak PA
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