Reference doses and quality in medical imaging

A training workshop on "Reference doses and quality in medical imaging" will be held in Luxembourg on 23-25 October 1997. The workshop is being organized by the European Commission, in cooperation with the German Federal Office for Radiation Protection and its Institute of Radiation Hygiene (BfS).

The objective of the workshop is to present, in a didactic form (25 review papers and 60 posters), the concept and implications of quality criteria and reference doses. This will include the mechanisms for the establishment and selection of reference dose values, methods for dose measurements, and dose assessments. The implementation of quality criteria and reference dose values will be discussed, as will their relevance to optimization strategies. In particular, the practical role of reference doses in establishing clinical audit programmes will be highlighted.

The training workshop is targeted at:

- Practitioners who are referring patients to, or are undertaking, radiological examinations;
- Medical physicists taking part in quality assurance programmes;
- Radiographers or other competent persons concerned with operating the radiological techniques;
- Radiological engineers;
- Those in charge of radiation protection surveillance;
- Authorities responsible for the implementation of safety standards in the medical domain.
For further information, please contact:

European Commission
DG XII - Science, research and development
Dr. H. Schibilla
DG XII/F-6
200 rue de la Loi
B-1049 Brussels
Fax +32-2-2966256
E-mail: research@ec.europa.eu

or

Institute of Radiation Hygiene
Prof. Dr. F. E. Stieve
Ingolst"dter Landstrasse 1
D-85764 Oberschleissheim/Neuherberg
Tel. +49-89-31603260; Fax +49-89-31603111
E-mail: research@ec.europa.eu