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3.2 Technical rules applicable to installations
3.2.1 Technical rules applicable to external-beam radiotherapy
installations
3.2.2 Technical rules applicable to brachytherapy installations
4.
BLOOD PRODUCT IRRADIATORS
306
4.1 Description
4.2 Technical rules applicable to facilities
5.
THE STATE OF RADIATION PROTECTION
IN THE MEDICAL SECTOR
306
5.1 Exposure situations in the medical sector
5.1.1 Exposure of health professionals
5.1.2 Exposure of patients
5.1.3 Exposure of the general public and environmental impact
5.2 Some general indicators
5.2.1 Licences and declarations
5.2.2 Dosimetry of health professionals
5.2.3 Significant Radiation protection Events
5.3 Radiation protection situation in radiotherapy
5.3.1 Radiation protection of radiotherapy professionals
5.3.2 Radiation protection of radiotherapy patients
5.3.3 Summary
5.4 Radiation protection situation in brachytherapy
5.4.1 Worker radiation protection
5.4.2 Radiation protection of patients
5.4.3 Management of sources
5.4.4 Emergency situations and the management of malfunctions
5.4.5 Summary
5.5 Radiation protection situation
in nuclear medicine
5.5.1 Radiation protection of nuclear medicine professionals
5.5.2 Radiation protection of patients in nuclear medicine
5.5.3 Protection of the general public and the environment
5.5.4 Summary
5.6 Radiation protection situation in conventional
radiology and computed tomography
5.7 Radiation protection situation
in interventional practices
5.7.1 Radiation protection of interventional radiology
professionals
5.7.2 Radiation protection of patients in interventional radiology
5.7.3 Summary
6.
OUTLOOK
320
1.
MEDICAL AND DENTAL
RADIODIAGNOSIS INSTALLATIONS 296
1.1 Presentation of the equipment and inventory
1.1.1 Medical radiodiagnosis
1.1.2 Interventional practices using ionising radiation
1.1.3 Dental radiodiagnosis
1.2 Technical rules for fitting out radiology
and tomography installations
2.
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
299
2.1 Presentation of nuclear medicine activities
2.1.1
In vivo
diagnosis
2.1.2
In vitro
diagnosis
2.1.3 Targeted internal radiotherapy
2.1.4 Biomedical research in nuclear medicine
2.2 Layout rules for nuclear medicine facilities
3.
EXTERNAL-BEAM RADIOTHERAPY
AND BRACHYTHERAPY
301
3.1 Description of the techniques
3.1.1 External-beam radiotherapy
3.1.2 Specific external-beam radiotherapy techniques
3.1.3 Brachytherapy