title: Challenges in radiation protection of patients for the 21st century.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this article is to presage the upcoming challenges in the area of radiation protection of patients in imaging for different stakeholders, such as dosimetrists, radiation biologists, patients, referring physicians, radiologists, radiographers, medical physicists, and manufacturers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Most of the challenges facing different stakeholders are actually based on the contribution required from industry; thus, manufacturers play the greatest role in making patients safer in this century.
authors.affiliation: International Atomic Energy Agency, Radiation Protection of Patients Unit, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 200, A-1400 Vienna, Austria. M.Rehani@iaea.org
authors.forename: Madan M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Rehani
mesh_terms: D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000517:prevention & control; D061214:Patient Safety; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000379:methods*