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ESR EuroSafe Imaging and its role in promoting radiation protection – 6 years of success

Authors: Guy Frija, Christoph Hoeschen, Claudio Granata, Eliseo Vano, Graciano Paulo, John Damilakis, Lluis Donoso, Lorenzo Bonomo, Reinhard Loose, Steve Ebdon-Jackson, the European Society of Radiology

Published in: Insights into Imaging | Issue 1/2021

Abstract

This article introduces the European Society of Radiology’s EuroSafe Imaging initiative in the year of its 6th anniversary. The European and global radiation protection frameworks are outlined and the role of the EuroSafe Imaging initiative’s Call for Action in successfully achieving international radiation protection goals as set out by those frameworks is detailed.

A full list of EuroSafe Imaging’s Steering Committee and all its current working groups can be found here: http://www.eurosafeimaging.org/about/steering-committee/eurosafe-imaging-working-groups.

The ESR has an ongoing collaboration on issues of common interest with IAEA e.g. the successful collaboration with the IAEA’s Radiation Protection of Patients Unit for the webinar ‘Radiation protection in interventional radiology: practical hints and tricks’, which took place on 6th Sept 2018.

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Official Journal of the European Union (2014) European Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom on basic safety standards for protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation and repealing directives 89/618/Euratom, 90/641/Euratom, 96/29/Euratom, 97/43 Euratom and 2003/122/Euratom. OJ of the EU. L13;57:1–73. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2014:013:0001:0073:EN:PDF

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Title: ESR EuroSafe Imaging and its role in promoting radiation protection – 6 years of success
Authors: Guy Frija
Christoph Hoeschen
Claudio Granata
Eliseo Vano
Graciano Paulo
John Damilakis
Lluis Donoso
Lorenzo Bonomo
Reinhard Loose
Steve Ebdon-Jackson
the European Society of Radiology
Publication date: 01-12-2021
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keyword: Radiation Protection
Published in: Insights into Imaging / Issue 1/2021
Electronic ISSN: 1869-4101
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13244-020-00949-5

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