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- Title
MEDICAL PHYSICS PERSONNEL FOR MEDICAL IMAGING: REQUIREMENTS, CONDITIONS OF INVOLVEMENTAND STAFFING LEVELS--FRENCH RECOMMENDATIONS.
- Authors
Isambert, Aurélie; Le Du, Dominique; Valéro, Marc; Guilhem, Marie-Thérèse; Rousse, Carole; Dieudonné, Arnaud; Blanchard, Vincent; Pierrat, Noëlle; Salvat, Cécile
- Abstract
The French regulations concerning the involvement of medical physicists in medical imaging procedures are relatively vague. In May 2013, the ASN and the SFPM issued recommendations regarding Medical Physics Personnel for Medical Imaging: Requirements, Conditions of Involvement and Staffing Levels. In these recommendations, the various areas of activity of medical physicists in radiology and nuclear medicine have been identified and described, and the time required to perform each task has been evaluated. Criteria for defining medical physics staffing levels are thus proposed. These criteria are defined according to the technical platform, the procedures and techniques practised on it, the number of patients treated and the number of persons in the medical and paramedical teams requiring periodic training. The result of this work is an aid available to each medical establishment to determine their own needs in terms of medical physics.
- Subjects
DIAGNOSTIC imaging; MEDICAL physics; BIOPHYSICISTS; RADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR medicine; ALLIED health personnel; TRAINING
- Publication
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 2015, Vol 131, p130
- ISSN
0144-8420
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/rpd/ncu312