Committee 3
Radiological Protection in Medicine

Under Main Commission

Committee 3 addresses protection of persons and unborn children when ionising radiation is used in medical diagnosis, therapy, and biomedical research, as well as protection in veterinary medicine.

Back Row (L-R): Mika Kortesniemi (Finland), David Sutton (Secretary, UK), Ivan Williams (Australia), Sebastien Gros (USA), Jin Chul Paeng (Korea)

Front Row (L-R): John Damilakis (Greece), M. Mahesh (USA), Kimberly Applegate (Chair, USA), Aurelie Isambert (France), Josep M Martí-Climent (Spain), Marie-Claire Cantone (Italy)

NOT PICTURED: Colin Martin (Vice-Chair, UK), Makoto Hosono (Japan), Claudia E. Ruebe (Germany), William Small (USA), Åste Søvik (Norway), Isabelle Thierry-Chef (Spain), Weihai Zhuo (China)

Summaries of Committee 3 Meetings:

David Sutton (Chair), University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Andrea Magistrelli (Vice-Chair), Children's Hospital Bambino Gesu' IRCCS, Italy
Isabelle Thierry-Chef (Secretary), Bacelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Spain
Geraldine O'Reilly (Member), St.James's Hospital, Ireland
Noramaliza Binti Mohd Noor (Member), Medical Physics Unit, Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
John Damilakis (Member), University of Crete, School of Medicine, Greece
Yusuke Inoue (Member), Department of Radiological Sciences,Faculty of Health Sciences, Komazawa University, Japan
Mika Kortesniemi (Member), HUS Diagnostic Center, Helsinki University Hospital, Finland
M. Mahesh (Member), Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, USA
Loredana Gabriela Marcu (Member), University of Oradea, Romania
Lorenzo Nicola Mazzoni (Member), European Federation of Organisations For Medical Physics (EFOMP), Italy
Jin Chul Paeng (Member), Seoul National University Hospital, Korea
Geraldine Pina (Member), ASNR, France
William Small (Member), USA
Jenia Vassileva (Member), National Center of Radiobiology and Radiation Protection (retired), Bulgaria
Ivan Williams (Member), Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency, Australia
Weihai Zhuo (Member), Institute of Radiation Medicine, Fudan University, China
Sören Mattsson (Member emeritus), Skåne University Hospital Malmö and Lund University, Sweden
Madan M. Rehani (Member emeritus), Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, USA
Marvin Rosenstein (Member emeritus), USA
Ola Holmberg (Representative), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Austria

Groups under Committee 3

Task Group 36
Radiation Dose to Patients in Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine
Task Group 108
Optimisation of Radiological Protection in Digital Radiography, Fluoroscopy, and CT in Medical Imaging
Task Group 109
Ethics in Radiological Protection for Medical Diagnosis and Treatment
Task Group 111
Factors Governing the Individual Response of Humans to Ionising Radiation
Task Group 113
Reference Organ and Effective Dose Coefficients for Common Diagnostic X-ray Imaging Examinations
Task Group 116
Radiological Protection Aspects of Imaging in Radiotherapy
Task Group 117
Radiological Protection in PET and PET/CT
Task Group 126
Radiological Protection in Human Biomedical Research
Task Group 128
Individualisation and Stratification in Radiological Protection: Implications and Areas of Application
Task Group 130
Doses from Diagnostic Radiopharmaceuticals During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding