Disaster Preparedness for Radiology Professionals - Version 3.0

The ACR Disaster Planning Task Force, in collaboration with the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, offers this primer as a quick reference summarizing current information on preparing for a radiation emergency, handling contaminated persons, dose assessment and radiation exposure health effects. It also includes information on radiological findings related to agents of biological and chemical terrorism. In the event of a radiation disaster, radiologists, radiation oncologists and medical physicists will play a vital role as responders and as sources of accurate information for patients, the public and the medical community.

Product Code: P-DISASTER06

Price: Member:
Member-In-Training :		 First copy free; each additional booklet $20 (no bulk discount)
First copy free; each additional booklet $18 (no bulk discount)
Nonmember: 1-9 copies; $30.00 each booklet
10-49 copies; $25.50 each booklet
50-999 copies; $24.00 each booklet

1,000+ copies, or other special requests please contact Sally Amsel at (703) 648-8962.

You may download and print one copy for personal use free of charge from the ACR Web site. Anyone wishing to print multiple copies must obtain copyright permission by contacting Brad Short at 1-800-227-5463, ext. 4975, or brads@acr.org.

To request a license for use of the primer PDF file on a commercially distributed CD ROM, please contact the education department at 1-800-227-5463, ext. 4040, or edu@acr.org.