Resources & Downloads
Materials on radiation protection and CBCT/DVT – fact sheets, checklists and templates for daily practice. Freely accessible documents as well as premium material for members. Most documents are in German.
🧮 Flight dose calculator – How much cosmic radiation do you collect on a flight to New York, compared with a CBCT scan? Try our interactive calculator.
🧮 Dose calculator – How much effective dose does a CBCT scan actually deliver? Estimate it from the dose-area product (DAP) by modality, region and FOV size.
📋 Radiation protection documentation
Forms, reports and studies on radiation protection:
- FOPH form: CBCT equipment instruction (PDF, 1.3 MB, German)
- FOPH: Dosimetry report 2024 (PDF, 1.5 MB, German)
- BfS study: natural radionuclides in mineral waters (PDF, 0.3 MB, German)
- FOPH guidance: Radon (V2.3, 2023) (PDF, 2.7 MB, German)
- FOPH guidance: Radon at the workplace (V1, 2026) (PDF, 1.6 MB, German)
- FOPH: diagnostic reference levels for CBCT (head/neck) (PDF, 0.2 MB, German)
- FOPH: diagnostic reference levels, projection radiography (R-06-04) (PDF, 0.3 MB, German)
🦷 CBCT in practice
Guidelines and literature on indication and reporting:
- DGZMK/ARö: S2k guideline on dental CBCT (12/2022) (PDF, 0.9 MB, German)
- SGDMFR: revised consensus guidelines on CBCT (Swiss Dental Journal 2024) (PDF, 0.5 MB, English)
- Imaging of jaw tumours – WHO classification 2022 (World J Radiol) (PDF, 24 MB, English)
- EU RP 172 – SEDENTEXCT: evidence-based guidelines for dental CBCT (PDF, 2.6 MB)
- Ludlow et al.: effective dose of dental CBCT – meta-analysis (2015) (PMC)
- Review of dental imaging doses 2010–2020 incl. web calculator (2021) (PMC)
- Planmeca: effective doses of ProMax 3D units (manufacturer table) (PDF, 1.6 MB)
- EADMFR: Basic Principles for Use of Dental Cone Beam CT (EADMFR)
👥 Patient protection
Recommendations and position statements on protecting your patients:
- KSR recommendations: radiation protection in pregnancy (2021) (PDF, 0.3 MB, German)
- Guide: pregnancy and X-ray examinations (BMGF Austria, 2017) (PDF, 3.1 MB, German)
- KSR recommendations: protective equipment (2021) (PDF, 0.3 MB, German)
- SSO/SGDMFR statement: patient protective equipment in dentistry (2023) (PDF, 0.2 MB, German)
- Image Gently in Dentistry – radiation safety for children (Alliance)
- Lead-apron debate: omitting patient shielding (zm 2024) (zm-online, German)
- AAPM: FAQ on patient gonadal/fetal shielding (CARES) (AAPM, PDF)
🔗 Links
External pages – availability is checked automatically every week:
📡 Current readings – ambient dose rate
- NADAM: current environmental radioactivity readings in Switzerland (map) (National Emergency Operations Centre, CH)
- ODL-Info: current ambient dose rate in Germany (map) (BfS, DE)
- EURDEP: European overview map – about 5,500 stations in 39 countries (European Commission, JRC)
- Safecast: worldwide readings from private Geiger counters (citizen science, not official)
- uRADMonitor: global real-time sensor network (citizen science, not official)
📖 Radiation protection topics
- Radon: health risk, reference level and protective measures in Switzerland (FOPH, CH, German)
- Radon map of Switzerland – radon risk by location (FOPH, CH)
- Radon: occurrence, effects, protection (BfS, DE, German)
- Radon and health – fact sheet (WHO, English)
- Natural radioactivity in food (BfS, German)
- Natural radionuclides in mineral waters – topic page (BfS, German)
- Brazil nuts: a snack with natural radioactivity (BfS, German)
⚖️ Law & training
- Radiological Protection Ordinance (StSV, SR 814.501) (Fedlex, CH, German)
- Continuing education in radiation protection (5-year requirement) (FOPH, CH, German)
- Radiation protection training for dentists (FOPH, CH, German)
📜 Guidelines
🩺 Clinical & diagnostics
- Bone metastases – clinical information (Canadian Cancer Society)