Nuclear Medicine Physics

Category 1: Radiation Safety and Professionalism

• Internal dosimetry, including MIRD models, fetal dose, units, facility design and surveys and occupational dose limits, radiation protection principles, personnel dosimetry.
• Radiation biology, dose equivalence and dose response, risk assessment and communication of risk.
• Assuring safety for the public, patient, and family (including exposure pathways, breastfeeding, and pregnancy).
• Legal framework for radiation protection, regulatory guidance, material transport and waste management, event reporting, patient release, personnel monitoring, implanted patient devices, special conditions., emergency procedures.
• Professional and scientific aspects, ethics, professionalism.