Symposium: European standard on medical physics services

Abstract

s / Physica Medica 30 (2014) e1ee15 e13 The high penetration of cloud computing technology leads to a situation where all applications will abandon their traditional operation and move to the cloud, where they can be delivered as services. In medical physics science, as the technology continuously breaks the ethical and security barriers, sharing of medical imaging data between experts world-wide tends to become a routine task. Examples of current accomplishments of international communication via the web will be presented. ICRP COMMITTEE 3 OVERVIEW (PROTECTION IN MEDICINE) E. Va~ no , D.L. Miller , M. Rehani . ICRP Committee 3. Chairman; ICRP Committee 3. Vice-Chairman; ICRP Committee 3 Committee 3 of ICRP is concerned with protection of persons and unborn children when ionising radiation is used for medical diagnosis, therapy, or biomedical research. According to the 2011-2017 Strategic Plan, Committee 3 develops recommendations and guidance for protection of patients, staff, and the public against radiation exposure in medicine. This paper presents an overview of the work of the Committee in recent years and current work in progress. The ICRP reports dealing with radiological protection (RP) in medicine in the last 10 years cover topics on: education and training in RP; preventing accidental exposures in radiation therapy; doses to patients from radiopharmaceuticals; radiation safety aspects of brachytherapy; release of patients after therapy with unsealed radionuclides; and managing radiation dose in interventional radiology, digital radiology, computed tomography, paediatrics, cardiology and other medical specialties. Work in progress deals with RP in Ion Beam Therapy, Occupational Protection in Brachytherapy, Justification in Imaging, RP in Cone Beam CT, Doses to Patients and Staff from Radiopharmaceuticals (update), Occupational Protection in Interventional Radiology, and Diagnostic Reference Levels for Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging. The Committee is also involved in preparation of a document on effective dose (and its use medicine). SYMPOSIUM: EUROPEAN STANDARD ON MEDICAL PHYSICS SERVICES Stelios Christofides , Derek Pearson , Gerard Colenbrander , Luca Moro . Medical Physics Department, Nicosia General Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus; Professional Adviser to the Chief Scientific Officer, NHS England. U.K.; Department of Medical Physics, Spaarnehospital, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands; Medical Physics Department, Salvatore Maugeri Foundation,