Workshop on European Population Doses from Medical Exposure, 24-26 April 2012, Athens, Greece

We are very pleased to invite you to the Workshop on European Population Doses from Medical Exposure. The workshop aims at informing on the results of the DDM2 project and achieving wide feedback on the European Guidance and follow-up schemes, before their submission to the European Commission. Furthermore, through the information dissemination regarding the DDM2 project, all countries will hopefully be encouraged to establish and maintain continuous population dose estimation in accordance with EC directive requirements. The workshop will be a great opportunity to discuss and exchange information on population doses from medical procedures. Thematically, it will focus on:

the presentation of data collection results
the presentation of population dose estimations
the evaluation of the test implementation of the European Guidance (RP154) - proposals for modifications or amendments
the presentation of the population dose information database.

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Audience

The workshop is addressed to:

all medical radiation practices professionals in Europe
representatives of professional societies
national organizations responsible for collecting health care statistical information
competent radiation protection authorities

Conference topics

Experiences in collection of frequencies (X-rays and nuclear medicine)
National coding systems
National data and trends in population dose for x-ray procedures
National data and trends in population dose for nuclear medicine procedures
Patient dose determination and diagnostic reference levels for x-ray procedures
Patient dose determination and diagnostic reference levels for nuclear medicine procedures
Sex and age distributions of patient doses

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Key dates and deadlines

Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 15, 2012
Notification of acceptance to authors: February 2012
Deadline for registration: March 31, 2012
Workshop: 24-26 April 2012

If you have additional questions related to the workshop, please contact the organization team at “workshop@ddmed.eu”.

Registration and abstracts submission

The workshop programme consists of oral and poster sessions of contributed papers. Keynote presentations will be given by experts in the project. Participation to the Workshop is open to experts, representing radiological practitioners, competent authorities, national organizations responsible for collecting health care statistical information and other possible stakeholders.

Τhe abstracts submitted for oral or poster presentation and the presentations files will be uploaded at project’s website. Proceedings of full papers will not be published.

Please limit the abstract to 4000 characters.

Participants will not be charged with registration fee.

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Workshop venue

The workshop will be held at:

National Hellenic Research Foundation Amphitheatre 48 Vassileos Constantinou Ave.

11635 Athens, Greece

Accommodation

A list of suggested hotels offering special reduced rates to workshop participants is available here.

Hotel reservations shall be made by the participants. In order to obtain the special rates, participants are advised to indicate the workshop name ”Dose Datamed workshop” during their reservations.

Social programme

The following events have been arranged for participants and accompanying persons: