Spatial variation of waterborne radon and temporal variation of radon in water at nine Maine schools.

abstract：:Design and associated good practices are described for a modular glovebox connector to improve control of radioactive and chemically toxic materials. The connector consists of an anodized aluminum circular port with a mating spacer, gaskets, and retaining rings for joining two parallel ends of commercially available o...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Hoover MD,Mewhinney CJ,Newton GJ

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on lung cancer mortality rates vs. average radon concentration in homes for 1,601 U.S. counties are used to test the linear-no threshold theory. The widely recognized problems with ecological studies, as applied to this work, are addressed extensively. With or without corrections for variations in smoking prevale...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Cohen BL

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to extremely low frequency electric and magnetic fields will induce electric fields and currents within the body, but these are almost always much lower than those that can stimulate peripheral nerve tissue. Guidance on exposure to such fields has been published by NRPB and ICNIRP, which is based on the avoid...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Saunders RD,Jefferys JG

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study estimated the radiation exposure attributed to nuclear medicine examinations during the period of 1985 through 1992 in Slovak Republic. It was accomplished by survey of nuclear medicine facilities from 1987 to 1992. In addition, a detailed analysis of nuclear medicine practice was obtained for 1992. The mea...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Ftácniková S,Ragan P

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work summarizes the measurements and associated environmental dosimetry of reactor-released 137Cs and 134Cs and weapons-produced 137Cs in samples of water, shoreline sediment and fish collected from 1971 to 1980 in the Hudson River Estuary. Trends observed in annual mean concentrations and the resultant dose impl...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Linsalata P,Hickman D,Cohen N

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Available medical records of plutonium injectees exposed in experimental studies of plutonium biokinetics under Manhattan Engineer District auspices have been reviewed for subsequent medical findings potentially related to the plutonium exposures. Five subjects who had been injected with approximately 11 kBq 239Pu, an...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Stebbings JH

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our analysis of data from the beagle project completed at the University of Utah has provided some comparisons that appear to be useful in testing the model proposed by Raabe of effective thresholds for induction of skeletal malignancy by bone-seeking radionuclides in beagles. Raabe's model predicted that cumulative s...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Lloyd RD,Taylor GN,Fisher DR,Schlenker RA,Miller SC

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the attacks of 11 September 2001, emergency preparedness within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as well as at the Department of Defense and other federal agencies, received higher visibility, new mandates and increased funding. Emergency deployment teams increased the frequency of drills to...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Grace MB,Cliffer KD,Moyer BR,Coleman CN,Prasher JM,Hatchett R,Mercier J,Manning RG,Bader JL,Disbrow GL,Kovacs GR

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a nuclear attack it may be necessary for emergency workers, such as firemen, utility workers and medical personnel, to perform urgent tasks in areas highly contaminated by radioactive fallout. To assist the control of radiation exposure of these workers, it will be useful to provide means to forecast radiation e...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Haaland CM

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1980, the NCRP formed Scientific Committee 66 with an assignment to address the subject of "biological effects of ultrasound and exposure criteria." It was recognized that the primary source of exposure to ultrasound was through medical applications and, especially, through procedures employing diagnostic ultrasoun...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Nyborg WL

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper provides a review and reanalysis of data relating to gastrointestinal (GI) uptake of uranium in humans. Estimates of GI uptake of uranium in adult humans have been derived from results of three controlled experimental studies involving short-term oral intake of an elevated quantity of uranium in fluids, fro...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Leggett RW,Harrison JD

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-level radioactive waste containing liquid scintillation fluid and known amounts of 14C and 3H has been incinerated in a modified pathological incinerator with the incinerator effluent, refractory surface and ash being monitored. The study relates the activity monitored to that incinerated and discusses how this re...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Hamrick PE,Knapp SJ,Parker MG,Watson JE Jr

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of systematic long-term measurements of 90Sr and 137Cs in surface seawater, performed at four locations along the Croatian coast of the Adriatic Sea, are summarized. Observed trends in annual mean activity concentrations are discussed. 90Sr and 137Cs fallout activities affect seawater activity, the coefficient...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Franić Z,Bauman A

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In situ and laboratory gamma spectroscopy were used to characterize natural background levels of radiation in the soil at eight sites around the Yucca Mountain Range. The purpose of this practical field analysis was to determine if published empirical in situ calibration factors would yield accurate quantitative speci...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Benke RR,Kearfott KJ

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A very limited number of field experiments have been performed to assess the relative radiation detection sensitivities of commercially available equipment used to detect radioactive sources in recycled metal scrap. Such experiments require the cooperation and commitment of considerable resources on the part of vendor...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Clouvas A,Xanthos S,Takoudis G,Potiriadis C,Silva J

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A uranium in vitro bioassay (urinalysis) action level was derived for use at the Department of Energy's Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project sites to identify chronic inhalation intakes of uranium mill tailings causing 0.5 mSv (50 mrem) annual effective dose equivalent. All radionuclides in the 238U decay cha...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Reif RH,Turner JB,Carlson DS

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radioactive sources have been inadvertently incorporated into consignments of scrap metal in various locations throughout the world. In 1990, a 3.7 GBq 137 Cs source, due for transfer from a Scottish industrial establishment to one in England, was mistakenly included in a scrap consignment destined for Irish Steel, a ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： O'Grady JO,Hone C,Turvey FJ

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute radiation syndrome represents the clinical response of radiation-sensitive key tissues (i.e., hematopoietic, gastrointestinal and neurovascular) following exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation. In this context, the hematopoietic syndrome remains the first therapeutic challenge. Today, identifying new drug...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Drouet M,Hérodin F

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The world's first atomic bomb was tested in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. From 1999 through 2008, scientists working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gathered information relevant to past releases from Los Alamos activities, including the Trinity test. Detonation on a 30.5 m tower enhanced radioactive ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Widner TE,Flack SM

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In November 2007, the Wisconsin Division of Public Health Hospital Disaster Preparedness Program State Expert Panel on Radiation Emergencies issued a report titled The Management of Patients in a Radiological Incident. Gundersen Lutheran Health System was selected to conduct a demonstration project to implement the re...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Jafari ME

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of fast growing medical radiation use, estimating possible late health effects of radiation, including potential cancer risk, is an issue of substantial interest. Since physicians make the decision to order or perform a radiological procedure, it is very important to provide them with objective information abo...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Ivanov VK,Tsyb AF,Mettler FA,Menyaylo AN,Kashcheev VV

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spot urine samples are often taken for emergency radiobioassay to provide a quick dose assessment for contaminated individuals. The subsequent dosimetric analysis requires a urinary output normalization method to adjust spot sampling to daily urine excretion. A rapid specific gravity method that was developed for 24-h...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Dai X,Kutschke K,Priest N

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionizing radiation is a known, well-documented, and reasonably well-quantified human cancer risk factor based on a remarkably consistent body of dose-response information from epidemiological studies of exposed populations supported by experimental studies using animal and cellular models. This fact is largely ascriba...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Land CE

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If a large radioactive cloud is produced, sampling may require that an airplane traverse the cloud. A method to predict the absorbed dose to the aircrew from penetrating the radioactive cloud is needed. Dose rates throughout spherically symmetric Gaussian clouds of various sizes, and the absorbed doses from traversing...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Thompson JM,Poston JW Sr

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This document was prepared as a review of the current knowledge of tritium metabolism and dosimetry. The physical, chemical, and metabolic characteristics of various forms of tritium are presented as they pertain to performing dose assessments for occupational workers and for the general public. For occupational worke...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Hill RL,Johnson JR

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For decades, radiation protection philosophy and practice have been the domain of professionals trained in the physical and medical sciences. Radiation protection policy was formulated and implemented largely without consultation with or participation by other professional disciplines or the general public. Although, ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Florig HK

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small plastic chambers containing alpha track detectors are often used for measuring indoor concentrations of 222Rn. This paper reports an experimental assessment of sources of error in measurements made with alpha track detector-containing chambers. The results demonstrate the feasibility of a nondestructive test for...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Dudney CS,Wilson DL,Bertini H,Gammage RB,Otten JA

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of radon at 50 sites with varying geology indicate that outdoor air in Nevada is comparable to that measured nationwide by Hopper et al. (1991). The statewide median of 15 Bq m-3 (0.4 pCi L-1) is essentially the same as the nationwide median. The range is considerable: from 2.6-52 Bq m-3 (0.07-1.40 pCi L-...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Price JG,Rigby JG,Christensen L,Hess R,LaPointe DD,Ramelli AR,Desilets M,Hopper RD,Kluesner T,Marshall S

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Human Monitoring Laboratory (HML) has had a number of BOMAB phantoms built over the years. Upon characterization, it has been found that the dimensions of the phantoms are always slightly different. This study has looked at the effect of these small variances in dimensions of the phantoms and compared the results ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Kramer GH,Hauck BM,Dang S,Capello K

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study on absorption of radon by different edible oils of plant origins produced and used in India was conducted in order to identify efficient radon-absorbing oils. A comparative study of radon absorption by edible oils of India with that of olive oil, which is known as a good absorber of radon, was also carried out...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Karunakara N,Al-Azmi D

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00