Competency information
Details
Calculate the risks and the risk factors associated with patient doses.
Considerations
- Choice of method for measuring patient dose in Diagnostics Radiology.
- The types of radiation involved in medical exposure.
- Risks and the risk factors associated with patient doses.
- The operation of the equipment or processes used to deliver radiation to the patient.
- Equipment, procedural and patient-related factors that affect dose received.
- The range of suitable dosimeters available and their limitations and applicability.
- How the dosimeter works and factors that affect the response of dosimeters.
- The quantities used as dose descriptors.
- How to translate measured values of dose into other dose quantities, including effective dose.
- How to set and apply dose reference levels.
- The requirements of the applicable radiation legislation and how it is applied to X-ray patient dosimetry.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 6 | Outcome Make and collate patient dose measurements, calculating patient doses for a range of examinations, including the calculation of foetal dose. |