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Physical Principles of Radiation Safety & Protection
Radiation safety and protection is crucial to the practice of medical imaging, and your safety as Medical Imaging Scientists.
In this module, we begin an introduction to the physical principles underlying radiation safety.
The module counts for 25% of the total mark.
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Starter Task
Review the following:
curated video resources and slide set
End of Task.
This module includes
Radiation hazards categorisation
Radiation hazards control factors
3. Distance
Inverse Square Law revisited
Dose Rate
4. Shielding
Attenuation and Absorption
Half-Value Layer (HVL)
Tenth-Value Layer (TVL)
Homogeneous and
Inhomogeneous beams
Lead Equivalency shielding
5. Time
Radiation Dose
Understand:
Half-Value Layer (HVL), Transmission through shielding, and, Attenuation of a radiation beam - using the plot and table.
HVL_1.pngHVL_1.pdfTutorial
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