Assessment of Collective Effective, Equivalent Organ Doses and Radiation Risks for Ukrainian Population Due to Conventional X-Ray Diagnostic Examinations

Currently in the field of radiation protection the optimization of most common X-Ray diagnostic procedures have a priority, since there is significant potential to reduce the medical exposure doses and radiation cancer risk. The purpose of this investigation is the estimation of collective equivalent organs/tissues doses and collective effective doses of the Ukrainian population using updated data on the mean values of equivalent organ and effective doses from phantom simulation, taking into account data on the average parameters of examinations and average values of entrance surface doses (ESDs). Determination of radiation risks of cancer for collected most common diagnostic procedures in according with risk coefficients from ICRP Pub.103.