On 09.10.2024, the VVD website published materials developed by the Latvian Society of Medical Engineering and Physics (within the Latvian Environmental Protection Fund project No 1-08/81/2023 "Development of Latvian diagnostic reference levels in radiography and computed tomography for paediatrics and nuclear medicine") in cooperation with RDC: https://www.vvd.gov.lv/lv/vadlinijas-mediciniskaja-apstarosana
On 6 September 2024, from 10:00 to 14:30, the Society will organise a seminar on "Development of Diagnostic Radiology Reference Levels and their Practical Application".
The Radiotherapy Initiative Group of the Baltic Medical Physics Societies is organising a joint event "Children's Clinical University Hospital and Baltic Medical Physics Societies joint workshop on MR imaging - "Magnetic resonance imaging: from basic principles to quality assurance"" in August. The event is planned in 4 parts - 3 online lectures and 1 face-to-face session at the Children's Clinical University Hospital.
The conference "Medical physics - current state, issues, development directions. New technologies" organised by Taras Shevchenko National University will take place from 25 to 27 September in a remote format. (Kyiv, Ukraine).
Project Cooperation Authority - State Environmental Service
Project description:
In order to keep patient doses from diagnostic examinations as low as possible, each healthcare facility needs to carry out regular dose analyses and compare patient doses with reference levels. Currently, reference levels in diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine have been partially developed in Latvia. These reference levels are available in Cabinet Regulation No 482 "Regulations on protection against ionising radiation in medical exposure" and in Radiation Safety Centre Guideline No 6 "Reference diagnostic levels for radiological procedures". The existing reference levels are not available for all standard procedures, in particular for paediatric patients and nuclear medicine examinations, and regular updating of the reference levels is necessary, as new technologies and new types of examinations are continuously being introduced into clinical practice, so that the existing reference levels need to be regularly reviewed to ensure that they are in line with current clinical practice and that healthcare facilities have reference levels against which to compare the radiation doses received by patients.
The aim of the project is to develop national benchmarks in radiography and computed tomography for paediatric patients and in diagnostic nuclear medicine for all patients. To produce a summary of patient doses received in 2023 for paediatric radiography and computed tomography and patient doses (MBq) received in diagnostic nuclear medicine and to update the National Environmental Service Radiation Safety Centre Guideline No 6 "Diagnostic reference levels for radiological procedures" to include the new reference levels.
On 2 November 2023, 12:00-16:45, the VVD RDC will host its annual online seminar for operators working with sources of ionising radiation on current developments in radiation safety. The registration form can be completed until 30 October 2023https://ej.uz/RDCseminars2023
On 2 November 2023, the National Environmental Service Radiation Safety Centre will host its annual online seminar for operators on current developments in radiation safety.
The 16th International Conference and Workshop "Medical Physics in the Baltic States 2023" will take place from 9 to 11 November at Kaunas University of Technology.
Conference topics cover scientific and clinical aspects of medical physics. The mission of the Conference is to consolidate the efforts of engineers, physicians and scientists working in hospitals, clinics, research and educational institutions and companies from different countries for solving health care problems related with radiation therapy, diagnostic, imaging, medical and technological information, and radiation protection.
