Patient's and occupational dose exposure in roentgen examinations

The study of roentgen exposure in diagnostics is a constant obligation everywhere because: (a) the higher number of people undergoing roentgen examination and (b) relative high exposure doses during examinations. We are interested about exposure doses for patients and occupational staff only. Nevertheless, being linked with the main goal of our paper: 'exposure dose' we would give below the figures of frequencies for widely performed examinations, just to calculate such parameters like mean exposure dose and collective effective dose. The use of ionizing radiation in Albania is as follow: about 70% belong to the medical application and 30% to the others, research, agriculture and industrial applications. From the medicine uses 80% belong to the X-ray and 20% radioactive sources. The use of X-ray procedure in medicine is 85% in diagnostic and 15% in radiotherapy. In this way, the main field, which contribute of exposure doses for both, population and occupational staff in Albania, is X-ray diagnostic irradiation. The amount of exposure dose as well as the collective dose coming up from X-ray in diagnostic is about 75-80% of total value for above-mentioned parameter. (author)