Radiation Protection in Mammography: Recommended Safety Procedures for the Use of Mammographic X-Ray Equipment - Safety Code 33

1995
ISBN: 0-660-15611-3
Cat. No.: H46-2/94-188E

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Table of Contents

• Explanatory notes
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Principal aims and scope of the Safety Code
• 3. Responsibility and personnel
  • 3.1 Owner
  • 3.2 Radiologist
  • 3.3 Medical Physicist.
  • 3.4 Quality Control Technologist
  • 3.5 X-ray Technologist
• 4. Facility, equipment and installation requirements
  • 4.1 Facility design criteria
    • 4.1.1 General recommendations
    • 4.1.2 Shielding recommendations
  • 4.2 Equipment purchase
    • 4.2.1 Performance specification writing
    • 4.2.2 Acceptance testing
  • 4.3 Radiation protection inspection
• 5. Equipment specifications
  • 5.1 Newly purchased medical X-ray equipment
  • 5.2 Existing medical X-ray equipment
  • 5.3 General requirements for mammographic X-ray equipment
    • 5.3.1 Requirements for film-screen mammographic X-ray equipment
    • 5.3.2 Requirements for Xeromammographic X-ray equipment
• 6. Image processing and handling
  • 6.1 Film processing
  • 6.2 Darkroom
  • 6.2.1 Darkroom maintenance
  • 6.3 Mammographic X-ray film
  • 6.4 Viewbox
  • 6.5 Cassette and screen
• 7. Quality Assurance program
  • 7.1 Goals of Quality Assurance program
  • 7.2 Cost-benefit of Quality Assurance program
  • 7.3 Implementation of a Quality Assurance program
    • 7.3.1 Establishment of Quality Control procedures
    • 7.3.2 Establishment of administrative procedures
• 8. Quality Control procedures in mammography
  • 8.1 Quality Control equipment
  • 8.2 Mammographic X-ray system evaluation
    • 8.2.1 Description and frequency of tests
  • 8.3 Quality Control monitoring
    • 8.3.1 Description and frequency of tests
• 9. Procedures for minimizing dose to personnel
  • 9.1 General recommendations
• 10. Procedures for minimizing dose to patients
  • 10.1 Guidelines for the prescription of diagnostic mammography
  • 10.2 Guidelines for screening mammography
  • 10.3 Guidelines for the carrying out of mammographic X-ray examinations

Appendix

1. Recommended Dose Limits of Ionizing Radiation
2. Recommended Glandular Dose Limits per Irradiation
3. Shielding Guides for Storage of Mammographic Film
4. Provincial/Territorial Radiation Safety Agencies Responsible for Mammographic Facilities
5. Radiation Measurement Units - International (SI) System
6. Glossary of Terminology
7. Radiation Emitting Devices Regulations for Diagnostic X-ray Equipment

Bibliography