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1 online resource (328 pages) |
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""RADIATION IN MEDICINE""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""BENEFITS OF IONIZING RADIATION""; ""THE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK""; ""The Current Situation""; ""The NRC Medical Use Program""; ""The Quality Management Rule""; ""The NRC Agreement State Program""; ""ALTERNATIVE REGULATORY SYSTEMS""; ""Seven Alternative Structures""; ""Assessment of the Alternatives""; ""The Preferred Choice: Alternative D, Federal Guidance""; ""FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""A: Recommendations to Congress"" |
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""B: Recommendations to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission""""C: Recommendations to the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors and to the States""; ""CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS""; ""1 Introduction""; ""ERRORS AND SUCCESSES, BENEFITS AND PROBLEMS OF RADIATION MEDICINE""; ""THE CURRENT REGULATORY SYSTEM""; ""The NRC Medical Use Program""; ""Regulation of Other Sources""; ""Evolution of Federal and State Regulatory Programs""; ""THE INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE STUDY""; ""The NRC Request to the IOM and the Committee Charge""; ""Elements of the Study""; ""Meetings""; ""Public Hearing"" |
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""Technical Panel""""Commissioned Papers""; ""Site Visits""; ""Professional Meetings""; ""Organization of the Report""; ""Scope and Limitations of the Report""; ""CHAPTER SUMMARY""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 Clinical Applications of Ionizing Radiation""; ""MEASURES OF PATIENT EXPOSURE TO IONIZING RADIATION""; ""DIAGNOSTIC APPLICATIONS OF IONIZING RADIATION""; ""External Sources: Radiology""; ""Types of Procedures""; ""Utilization Rates""; ""Radiation Doses""; ""Radiation Regulation and Control""; ""Internal Sources: Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine""; ""Types of Procedures""; ""Utilization Rates"" |
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""Radiation Doses""""Radiation Regulation and Control""; ""THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS OF IONIZING RADIATION""; ""External Sources: Radiation Oncology and Teletherapy""; ""General Approaches""; ""Clinical Uses in Illustrative Medical Conditions""; ""Utilization Rates""; ""Collective Dose""; ""Radiation Regulation and Control""; ""Internal Sources: Brachytherapy""; ""Overview""; ""Types of Procedures""; ""Radiation Regulation and Control""; ""Internal Unsealed Sources: Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine""; ""Overview""; ""Types of Procedures and Number of Treatments"" |
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""Radiation Regulation and Control""""CHAPTER SUMMARY""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 Regulation and Radiation Medicine""; ""REGULATORY GOALS""; ""THE CURRENT REGULATORY FRAMEWORK""; ""How Society Regulates Health Care Delivery""; ""The Regulatory Framework""; ""Nuclear Regulatory Commission""; ""Food and Drug Administration""; ""Environmental Protection Agency""; ""States""; ""THE COSTS OF NRC REGULATION""; ""Cost Recovery by the NRC Through Fee Collection""; ""Cost of a Full-Time Equivalent at NRC""; ""Fee Schedules for Selected NRC License Categories"" |
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""Fees Collected from Selected NRC License Categories in 1993"" |
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Nuclear medicine -- Safety regulations -- United States
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Medical radiology -- Safety regulations -- United States
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Ionizing radiation -- Safety measures
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Radioactivity -- Safety measures.
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Ionizing radiation -- Safety measures
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Medical radiology -- Safety regulations
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Radioactivity -- Safety measures
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gottfried, Kate-Louise D
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Penn, Gary
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| ISBN |
9780309588751 |
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0309588758 |
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