Journal of Radiation Protection and Research

The Korean Association for Radiation Protection (대한방사선방어학회)
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Medical Exposure of Korean by Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Examinations

진단방사선 및 핵의학 검사에 의한 한국인의 의료상 피폭

  • Kwon, Jeong-Wan (Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Jeong, Je-Ho (Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Jang, Ki-Won (Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Lee, Jai-Ki (Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University)
  • 권정완 (한양대학교 원자력공학과) ;
  • 정제호 (한양대학교 원자력공학과) ;
  • 장기원 (한양대학교 원자력공학과) ;
  • 이재기 (한양대학교 원자력공학과)
  • Published : 2005.12.30
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Abstract

Although medical exposure from diagnostic radiology procedures such as conventional x-rays, CT and PET scans is necessary for healthcare purposes, understanding its characteristics and size of the resulting radiation dose to patients is much of worth because medical radiation constitutes the largest artificial source of exposure and the medical exposure is in a trend of fast increasing particularly in the developed society. Annual collective doses and per-caput effective doses from different radiology procedures in Korea were estimated by combining the effective dose estimates per single medical procedure and the health insurance statistics in 2002. Values of the effective dose per single procedure were compiled from different sources including NRPB reports, ICRP 80, MIRDOSE3.1 code and independent computations of the authors. The annual collective dose reaches 27440 man-Sv (diagnostic radiology: 22880 man-Sv, nuclear medicine: 4560 man-Sv) which is reduced to the annual per-caput effective dose of 0.58 mSv by dividing by the national population of 47.7 millions. The collective dose is far larger than that of occupational exposures, in the country operated 16 nuclear power plants in 2002, which is no more than 70 man-Sv in the same year. It is particularly noted that the collective dose due to CT scans amounts 9960 man-Sv. These results implies that the national policy for radiation protection should pay much more attention to optimization of patient doses in medicine.

의료 목적으로 X선 촬영이나 CT, PET과 같은 진단방사선 피폭은 불가피하지만 선진국에서 의료 방사선이 최대의 인공 피폭원을 구성하고 있고 또 빠르게 증가하는 경향에 있음을 고려하면 의료상 피폭의 특성이나 그 결과로 인한 환자 선량 크기를 이해하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 이에 2002년도를 기준으로 단위 진료행위별 선량과 국내 의료보험 통계자료를 결합하여 방사선 진료절차별 집단선량과 1인당 유효선량 평가하였다. 절차의 유효선량 값은 NRPB 보고서, ICRP 80, MIRDOSE3.1 및 우리가 독립적으로 산출한 자료들로부터 편집하였다. 평가 결과 연간 집단선량은 진단방사선 22880man-Sv, 핵의학 4560man-Sv로서 총 27440 man-Sv로 나타났으며 따라서 인구 4770만 명을 나눈 1인당 연평균 의료상 피폭선량은 0.58mSv였다. 이 집단선량은 2002년 16기의 원전을 가동한 우리나라의 직업상피폭 70man-Sv보다 크게 많다. 특히 CT 촬영만의 집단선량도 9960man-Sv에 이름은 주목할 일이다. 이 결과는 국가의 방사선방호 정책이 의료에서 환자선량 최적화에 보다 주목해야 함을 시사한다.

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