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Welcome to the Radiation Safety Office

Collectively, Columbia University Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital and New York State Psychiatric Institute form a large health science complex with extensive teaching, research, and clinical facilities. The basic goal of the Radiation Safety Office is to ensure the implementation of all protective measures necessary to guarantee that doses from ionizing radiation to patients, visitors, students, faculty and staff on campus, as well as to the community at large, remain “as low as reasonably achievable” (ALARA). Major entities supported by Radiation Safety Office services include:
  • Columbia University Medical Center
  • New York Presbyterian Hospital
  • New York State Psychiatric Institute
  • Columbia Presbyterian Eastside
  • New York Presbyterian Hospital/Allen Pavilion
  • CUMC Cyclotron Facility
  • Dental Facilities throughout CUMC
Read a historical overview of Radiation Safety Office and services provided by it.

Radiation Safety Office Annual Report 2007 (PDF - Download Adobe Reader here) New

Selected properties of Radionuclides commonly used at CUMC and NYSPI (PDF - Download Adobe Reader here) New

Survey Meters: What to use? And where to purchase? New

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Radiation Control Draft Permit Application (PDF - Download Adobe Reader here) New (Columbia UNI required)

PerkinElmer Links

2008 Radiation Safety Lecture Schedule

How to take online X-Ray Fluoroscopy test and get the RASCAL certificate?

How to take online test and get the RASCAL certificate?

Radiation Safety Office Newsletter - February 2008 (PDF - Download Adobe Reader here)

Radiation Safety Badges - Do's and Don'ts

Quality Assurance Programs for Diagnostic Radiology Facilities

Argonne National Laboratory has released new versions of RESRAD (onsite) (V.6.4) and RESRAD-BUILD (V.3.4) codes. These codes now share the same radionuclide database and include ICRP 72 age-dependent dose conversion factors. RESRAD codes can be downloaded from the RESRAD web site http://www.evs.anl.gov/resrad.

Rules and Regulations