Abstract

VIGABRIEL POPPE, Elvia V. et al. Importancia de la radioprotección. REVISTA MEDICIS [online]. 2006, n.3, pp. 30-33. ISSN 1818-5223.

Beingmade a bibliographical revisión; in ordeno be able to approach the radioprotección process that ¡s a very important subject in the fieid of radiology, it is why the objeetive of this article is to briefly describe the superficial and deep biological efléets of.K-rayses, and how they wenl away developing the preventive measures that allow us at the presenl time to exert with mínimum ri.sk one of themost exciting specialties of Medical Sciences.              Without a doubt, lew discoveries have produced the fascinaron and the immediate mterest, as much bctween the scienttsts as in ihe publie, who woke tip the ftnding reponed by Roentgen the first daysof 1896: a ncw forrn ofenergy, that could not be felt, neitherio taste, ñor tu see, ñor to hear, bul able to cross not (inly ihe human meat, buí unttl the walls, threatening always ending for ihe private ¡ife and the privacy. Rut the ¡nvestigators were not very salé of whicli it was the cause of the observed cutaneous incidents, that thcy called "sunstrokes or eiectrical insolations" X-rayses were rece i ved without no type of distrust, and used without restrictions. this ampie diffusión caused that ihe injuries caused by them almost perceived and reported from the beginning and wíth it the confusión, the ignorance and the different opinions accompanied the first passages by the medical radioprotección, (3) Its history can be divided in four main chronological periexis: The Era of the PiorteersofllieProtection: (1895-1915) The Gol den age of Radiology. (191 5-1940) Ihe Golden age ofthe Radioprotección: (1940-1960) the Modern Lira: (1960-Until the present time)