Diagnostic Imaging Professionals Have a Responsibility to Adhere to Effective

question 12

Multiple Choice

Diagnostic imaging professionals have a responsibility to adhere to effective radiation protection practices for which of the following reasons?
1) The risk of cancer from radiologic examinations accumulates over a lifetime.
2) To limit the risk of nonstochastic effects to a reasonable level compared with nonradiation risks and in relation to society's needs, benefits gained, and economic factors.
3) Good patient care standards dictate the use of effective radiation protection practices.
4) Continually evaluating one's radiation protection practices is necessary because radiation protection guidelines for diagnostic radiology assume a linear, nonthreshold, dose-risk relationship.

• A) 1 and 2 only
• B) 1, 2, and 3 only
• C) 1, 2, and 4 only
• D) 1, 2, 3, and 4

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