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The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of doctor’s knowledge about radiation doses received by patients in radiological examinations. A questionnaire was compiled and the most commonly requested radiological investigations were listed. Participants were asked to identify the average dose of radiation received by patients when they underwent a posterior-anterior hand x-ray. Most of doctors could not correctly estimate the amount of radiation dose received by patients in a routine radiography of hand and was not aware of annually maximum permissible dose to general Pubic. Some of doctors did not know that sonography and MRI have no radiation dose.
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Sani, K.G. (2009). Iranian doctor’s knowledge about received dose by patients in diagnostic radiology. In: Dössel, O., Schlegel, W.C. (eds) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 25/3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03902-7_6
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