The IAEA is encouraging medical professionals to optimize patient protection by shifting from manual to digital processes of monitoring ionizing radiation in imaging procedures, with its first ...

Radiation from X-rays is an occupational hazard for many medical specialists, including cardiologists, vascular and orthopedic surgeons, urologists, some radiologists and gastroenterologists.

Radiation dose management in medical imaging presents a number of challenges. Image quality must be optimized to aid diagnosis while minimizing the risk of patient or healthcare workers exposure to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An estimated 10% of hematologic cancers among children and adolescents may be attributable to medical ...

Assessing the risk of radiation-induced hematologic cancer from medical imaging in children and adolescents might support informed decisions on the use of imaging. We followed a retrospective cohort ...

Radiation from medical scans has been linked to a higher risk of blood cancers in children. One in 10 blood cancers in children and adolescents—around 3,000 cancers in all—may be attributable to this ...

A study led by UC San Francisco and UC Davis has concluded that radiation from medical imaging is associated with a higher risk of blood cancers in children. The researchers examined data from nearly ...