Technological literacy (TL) is a central theme in healthcare and laboratory professional education. The rapid speed of technological development in the healthcare sector, clinical and laboratory practice calls for new knowledge, skills and attitudes in future professionals and therefore for new approaches …

How to find the right balance

Introduction: In the Netherlands, Diagnostic Reference Levels (DRLs) have not been based on a national survey as proposed by ICRP. Instead, local exposure data, expert judgment and the international scientific literature were used as sources. This study investigated whether the current DRLs are reasonable …

Abstract gepubliceerd in Elsevier: Introduction: Recent research has identified the issue of ‘dose creep’ in diagnostic radiography and claims it is due to the introduction of CR and DR technology. More recently radiographers have reported that they do not regularly manipulate exposure factors for different …

Introduction In the Netherlands, hospitals have difficulty in implementing the formal procedure of comparing radiation dose values to Diagnostic Reference Levels (DRLs).

In 2014 heeft Hogeschool Inholland samen met het RIVM voor het Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport een pilotproject uitgevoerd. In dit project hebben studenten Medische Beeldvormende en Radiotherapeutische Technieken dosismetingen uitgevoerd bij 8 ziekenhuizen en deze getoetst aan de Diagnostische …