The PiDRL Workshop was held in Lisbon (Lisbon School of Health Technology), Portugal, on October 15-17, 2015. This was the final workshop organized within the project funded by the European Commission, intended to provide European DRLs for paediatric examinations and to agree on a methodology for establishing and using DRLs for paediatric imaging. The consortium headed by the European Society of Radiology (ESR) include also key European stakeholders and professional groups with relevance to the radiation protection of paediatric patients: European Society of Paediatric Radiology (ESPR); European Federation of Radiographer Societies (EFRS); European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics (EFOMP), Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) with Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) as subcontractor.
The aims of the PiDRL Workshop were to present and discuss the project’s results, submit the draft European Guidelines for comments and critical review by a larger audience and identify the needs for further action on DRLs and optimisation of radiation protection of paediatric patients. The workshop was aimed at key stakeholders in paediatric imaging. In particular, the workshop brought together around 150 participants from 32 countries: radiologists, radiographers and medical physicists by giving them a forum to participate actively in discussions.
IAEA was involved in the Expert Advisory Panel and the Steering Panel of the project, and in the Scientific Committee of the Workshop.