Objective
MEDIRAD aims to enhance the scientific bases and clinical practice of radiation protection (RP) in the medical field and thereby addresses the need to understand and evaluate the health effects of low dose ionising radiation exposure from diagnostic and therapeutic imaging and from off-target effects in radiotherapy (RT).
MEDIRAD will pursue 3 major operational objectives: First, it will improve organ dose estimation and registration to inform clinical practice, optimise doses, set recommendations and provide adequate dosimetry for clinical-epidemiological studies of effects of medical radiation. Second, it aims to evaluate and understand the effects of medical exposures, focusing on the two major endpoints of public health relevance: cardiovascular effects of low to moderate doses of radiation from RT in breast cancer treatment incl. understanding of mechanisms; and long-term effects on cancer risk of low doses from CT in children. Third, it will develop science-based consensus policy recommendations for the effective protection of patients, workers and the general public.
Within the 4-year project a multi-disciplinary consortium will, in close interaction with European medical associations, MELODI and EURADOS (1), develop a tool to determine image quality to maximise optimisation of RP in medical imaging, (2) improve and develop new individual organ/anatomical structure dosimetry from chest CT, I131 administration, fluoroscopy-guided procedures, hybrid imaging, and RT for breast cancer and interlinks with image quality measures, (3) conduct epidemiological studies of consequences of RT and CT, (4) identify potential novel imaging and circulating biomarkers and mechanisms of radiation effects, (5) develop innovative risk models, (6) develop and implement for the first time a European repository of patient dose and imaging data, (7) develop science-based recommendations, and (8) introduce novel approaches to bring together the nuclear and medical sectors.
Fields of science
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicineoncologybreast cancer
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicineradiologynuclear medicine
- engineering and technologymedical engineeringdiagnostic imaging
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicinecardiologycardiovascular diseases
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthepidemiology
Call for proposal
NFRP-2016-2017-1
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
1010 Wien
Austria
Participants (34)
08036 Barcelona
75006 Paris
74100 Rethimno
SW3 6JJ London
9713 GZ Groningen
92260 Fontenay Aux Roses
39106 Magdeburg
3045-093 Coimbra
462 80 Vanersborg
08034 Barcelona
91 348 Lodz
35510 Cesson Sevigne
55131 Mainz
1211 Geneve
85764 Neuherberg
1160 Bruxelles
9000 Gent
97080 Wurzburg
35037 Marburg
75654 Paris
1649-028 Lisbon
81675 Muenchen
00185 Roma
Participation ended
BS8 1QU Bristol
1081 HV Amsterdam
NE1 7RU Newcastle Upon Tyne
1066 CX Amsterdam
08290 Cerdanyola Del Valles
00161 Roma
4 Dublin
31052 Toulouse Cedex 3
08908 L'hospitalet Del Llobregat
SW7 2AZ London
16816 Neuruppin