Official announcements have confirmed that federal regulators will now be requiring makers of high-grade medical scanning machines to include important safety measures that would work towards preventing patients from receiving excessive doses of radiation.

Announced on Tuesday, the initiative is a part of a multi-faceted effort to address reports of many complicated injuries, all the while cutting back lifetime exposure to radiation, which has managed to grow by almost 2 times since the 1980s.

The initiative of the Food and Drug Administration will focus primarily on high-tech machines like CT scanners, which allow doctors to make diagnosis which are potentially life-saving, but also end up exposing patients to high-doses of radiations which could cause cancer.

FDA officials have insisted that manufacturers should install safeguards all on their machines that automatically notify operators if they are using a high-than-recommended dose of radiation.

A public meeting to discuss the issue with doctors and manufacturers has been scheduled for late March.