The Nuclear Safety Authority: statement and perspectives

This Power Point presentation gives the distribution of exposure sources among different sectors and origins, the level of medical exposures in the USA in 1983 and 2006, an assessment of the evolution of patient exposure in the world, the number of scanners in some countries and the corresponding average dose per inhabitant, the importance of the use of a scanner in diagnosis examinations. It comments the increase of the average efficient dose per inhabitant in radiology, shows that a major part of it is due to scanners. Other data are presented regarding patient age and gender. The contributions of radiography and scanner are compared for several western countries. Then the author addresses several issues: the value of the actual dose, and the associated risks. He outlines how to control the observed dose increase