Preface

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Over the years, the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), hereinafter referred to as ‘the Commission’, has issued many reports providing advice on radiological protection and safety in medicine. Publication 73 was a general overview of this area.

In recent years, the Commission has also addressed some specific situations where difficulties have been observed, trying to produce such topical reports in a style that is accessible to those who may be directly concerned in their daily work, and taking every effort to ensure wide circulation of such reports.

When the 2007 Recommendations were outlined, the Commission concluded that a new general overview report on radiological protection and safety in medicine would be warranted in support of the Recommendations and as an update and amendment to Publication 73.

For this particular purpose, the Commission did not launch its usual type of Task Group. Instead, Committee 3 acted as a Task Group in its entirety, but with no outside members. A core group, corresponding to the Full Members of conventional Task Groups, comprised:

The other Committee 3 Members, who acted as Corresponding Task Group Members during the preparation of the report, were:

C. Cousins was the Chair of Committee 3, J.-M. Cosset was the Vice-Chair, and E. Vañó was the Committee Secretary.

The report was approved for publication through postal ballot by the Commission in October 2007.