A Health Care Personnel Guide For Assessing Radiation Risk And Selecting Imaging Procedures In Pregnant Women Easy-print edition of this Guide

This reference material is for use by medical staff affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital only. It is designed to inform your decision-making as you determine individual risks associated with medical imaging and communicate with your patients. It should not be interpreted as medical advice, nor is it necessarily germane to institutions using other imaging protocols. Patients with questions regarding these issues should speak directly with their caregivers. An additional resource is the Ask the Experts-Pregnancy and Radiation module of the Health Physics Society: http://www.hps.org
References
  1. National Council on Radiation Protection. Medical Radiation Exposure of Pregnant and Potentially Pregnant Women. Report Number 54. Washington, DC: NCRP; 1977.
  2. United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation. Sources and Effects of Ionizing Radiation. New York, NY: United Nations; 1977.
  3. International Commission on Radiological Protection. Protection of the patient in diagnostic radiology. Publication 34. Annals of the ICRP. 1982;9.
  4. Wagner L, Lester R, Saladana L. Exposure of the Pregnant Patient to Diagnostic Radiation. Madison, WI: Medical Physics Publishing; 1997.
  5. International Commission on Radiological Protection. Doses to the Embryo and Fetus from Intakes of Radionuclides by the Mother. Publication 34. Annals of the ICRP. 2001;31.