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Application of ionising radiation in healthcare is basic and routine in contemporary medicine. Benefits to patients from such application have been established beyond doubt ([[ICRP Publication 105|ICRP Publication 105: Radiological Protection in Medicine]]). It is difficult to imagine a healthcare system without modern diagnostic imaging and image-guided interventional procedures. A survey of policy leaders in internal medicine rated computed tomography (CT) imaging as one of the main healthcare innovations in the 20th century (Fuchs and Sox, 2001[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11558715]). The applications of ionizing ionising radiation in healthcare are grouped as followinginclude
:1.1 [[Diagnostic radiology]]
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Fuchs, V.R., Sox, H.C., 2001. Physicians' views of the relative importance of thirty medical innovations. J. Health Aff. 20, 30–42.
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