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abstract：:210Po and its precursor 210Pb in cigarette smoke contribute a significant radiation dose to the lungs of smokers. In this work, the concentration of 210Po was determined in 17 of the most frequently smoked cigarette brands in Italy. Samples of tobacco, fresh filters, ash, and post-smoking filters were analyzed; 210Po ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Desideri D,Meli MA,Feduzi L,Roselli C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of laboratory animal retinal exposure to green monochromatic laser radiation show an increasing stability of tissue with increasing pulse duration up to 10(-1) s. This mechanism of biological response of the eye to light damage is fundamental to living systems. It does not manifest itself in animals under deep...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Zheltov G,Glazkov V,Podol'tzef A,Linnik L,Privalov A

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signal processing within a radiation detector affects detection efficiency. Currently, organizations such as private industry, the U.S. Navy, Army, and Air Force are coupling some detector systems with data collection devices to survey large land areas for radioactive contamination. As detector technology has advanced...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Marianno CM

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuously repeated or frequent periodic measurements of the radiation environment in the absence of an identified source of ionizing radiation provide large data sets on the ambient background. Statistical evaluation of these data allows for the identification and quantification of the relevant background distribut...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Brandl A

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radiation safety implications following the administration of 131I for the treatment of Grave's disease to a patient undergoing home-based renal dialysis was investigated. External dose-rate measurements from the patient revealed a peak value at around day 2, post administration. The effective half-life was determ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Simpson JB,Godwin GA

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expressions are derived in three cases for the expectation and uncertainty of body burdens and doses calculated from a linear model of environmental transport and human metabolism in terms of expectation and uncertainty in inputs of discrete, stochastic random variables. Three cases are compared to determine the relat...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Kercher JR,Robison WL

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The escaping radioactivity from Greek coal power plants (CPP) was studied. For the case studied the radioactivity is due to the uranium series. The major part (99%) escapes as very fine particles, while the rest is fly ash. The total escaping 226Ra activity is of the order of 40 Ci/yr. The particulate dispersion of fl...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Papastefanou C,Charalambous S

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data were obtained from the literature for gonad and body weights and for the Pu or Ce content of the gonads and body at death for several laboratory animal species, five human Pu injection cases, and 731 human adults exposed environmentally to Pu in fallout. Data for Pu concentration in gonads, liver, and bone sample...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Thomas RG,Durbin PW,McInroy JF,Healy JW

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Field Research Division uses the HYRad-HYSPLIT dispersion model to assess hypothetical accidental releases of airborne radioactive materials at the Idaho National Laboratory in southeastern Idaho. The State of Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Idaho Na...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Abbott ML

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate any connection between high radon concentrations and low-infiltration houses, we have concurrently measured the 222Rn concentration and the infiltration rate in U.S. houses. Three housing surveys have been undertaken: one in "energy-efficient" houses located throughout the U.S. and two in "conventional" h...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Nero AV,Boegel ML,Hollowell CD,Ingersoll JG,Nazaroff WW

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) was directed by Congress to assess the risk of thyroid cancer from 131I associated with fallout from the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons at the Nevada Test Site. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) was requested by DHHS to address Public Law 97-414, Section 7 (...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Wachholz BW

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of 226Ra-activated markings was specific for military equipment some decades ago and the extent of possible internal exposure of former military personnel due to ingestion of 226Ra is an issue of discussion. Whole- or partial-body counts are not sensitive enough to trace an overexposure due to a possible 226Ra...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Schirmer A

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prompt gamma emission data from the International Atomic Energy Agency's Prompt Gamma-ray Neutron Activation Analysis database are analyzed to determine the absorbed dose rates in tissue to be expected when natural elements are exposed in a near-thermal neutron environment. ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Schwahn SO

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DOE facilities are required to conduct environmental surveillance to verify that facility operations are operated within the approved risk envelope and have not caused undue risk to the public and the environment. Given a reduced budget, a strategy for analyzing environmental surveillance data was developed to set pri...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Shyr LJ,Herrera H,Haaker R

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the Full-Scale Radiological Dispersal Device Field Trials carried out in Suffield in 2012, several suites of detection and sampling equipment were used to measure and characterize the explosive dispersal of the short half-life radioactive tracer Lanthanum-140 ((140)La). The equipment deployed included networks ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Korpach E,Berg R,Erhardt L,Lebel L,Liu C

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioassay and laboratory survey schedules can be generated using a radioisotope inventory program. This paper discusses the use of laboratory activity, past performance and operational factors for laboratory survey frequency determination, and use of laboratory activity for bioassay scheduling. Mayo Clinic has recently...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Classic KL,Gross GP

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Internationally, the upper limit of acceptable individualized risk from occupational exposure for nuclear industry workers is determined by the death probability 10(-3) y(-1). The same risk value of 10(-3) y(-1) is established by the radiation safety standards currently in force in Russia. The United Nations Scientifi...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Ivanov VK,Tsyb AF,Panfilov AP,Agapov AM,Kaidalov OV,Korelo AM,Maksioutov A,Chekin SY,Kashcheyeva PV

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To reconstruct reliable nuclear medicine-related occupational radiation doses or doses received as patients from radiopharmaceuticals over the last five decades, the authors assessed which radiopharmaceuticals were used in different time periods, their relative frequency of use, and typical values of the administered ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Drozdovitch V,Brill AB,Callahan RJ,Clanton JA,DePietro A,Goldsmith SJ,Greenspan BS,Gross MD,Hays MT,Moore SC,Ponto JA,Shreeve WW,Melo DR,Linet MS,Simon SL

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Human Monitoring Laboratory has replaced its lung counting system with four large area (85 mm x 30 mm) HPGe detectors, electronics, and software. The system has been calibrated with the same lung set and phantom that was used to calibrate the Human Monitoring Laboratory's previous lung counting system and the Came...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Kramer GH,Hauck BM

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiofrequency-induced hyperthermia has recently gained acceptance in cancer therapy. One of a few commercially available systems is the Magnetrode, a device operating at 13.56 MHz with an output power up to 1000 W. Heating of the prescribed part of the patient's body is accomplished by one of the coil electrodes. To ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Stuchly MA,Repacholi MH,Lecuyer DW

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The (241)Am contents in the United States Transuranium and Uranium Registries' (USTUR) case 0102 leg phantom were previously estimated to be 1,243 ± 11 Bq. Recent analysis of the computed tomography images of the phantom revealed multiple bone structures missing from various regions of the phantom skeleton including: ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Tabatadze G,Brey RR,Kramer GH,Capello K,Meldrum DJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight of the most severe cases of acute radiation disease (ARS) known to have occurred in humans (as the result of criticality accidents) had survival times less than 120 h (herein defined as "early death"). These accidents were analyzed and are discussed with respect to the specific accident scenarios and the resulti...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Barabanova T,Wiley AL,Bushmanov A

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neyman-Pearson principles are briefly discussed and 95% confidence intervals of the form [0, ##.##] are presented. Use is made of the fact that the probability of the difference of two random variables, each with a Poisson distribution, can be expressed in terms of modified Bessel functions of integral order and eleme...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Potter WE

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Just two years have passed since the Tokyo Electric Power Company-Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) accident, a multidimensional disaster that combined to destroy the local infrastructure on which the safety system depended and gave a serious impact to the world. Countermeasures including evacuation, shelter...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Yamashita S

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, data on exposures of humans as well as animals to fission products in plumes emitted by underground Soviet tests have been declassified by the Khazakhstan government and published in English. Similar human intakes of gross fission product mixtures that caused acute prodromal symptoms have not been previously...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Brodsky A,Reeves G

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess internal annual dose in the general public in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, 80 duplicate cooked diet samples, equivalent to the food consumed over a 400-d period by one person, were collected from 100 volunteers in Aomori City and the village of Rokkasho during 2006–2010 and were analyzed for 11 radionuclides. T...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Ohtsuka Y,Kakiuchi H,Akata N,Takaku Y,Hisamatsu S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past 30 y, the numbers and types of fluoroscopically-guided (FG) procedures have increased dramatically. The objective of the present study is to provide estimated radiation doses to physician specialists, other than cardiologists, who perform FG procedures. The authors searched Medline to identify English-lang...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Kim KP,Miller DL,Berrington de Gonzalez A,Balter S,Kleinerman RA,Ostroumova E,Simon SL,Linet MS

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute and chronic effects of radiation on children have been and will continue to be of great social, public health, scientific, and clinical importance. The focus of interest on ionizing radiation and children has been clear for over half a century and ranges from the effects of fallout from nuclear weapons testi...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Mettler FA Jr,Constine LS,Nosske D,Shore RE

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yield of chromosome aberrations (dicentric and ring chromosomes) was determined for five patients who had been extensively exposed to diagnostic x rays. Remarkably high aberration yields were obtained for each of them leading to correspondingly high equivalent whole body doses ("biological dosimetry"). The contrib...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Weber J,Scheid W,Traut H

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the release of radioactive materials from a large radiological dispersal device (e.g., dirty bomb), improvised nuclear detonation, or nuclear power plant accident, up to hundreds of square miles may be contaminated. A portion of this area will be evacuated; however, people living in the portion that is not evacu...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Snyder E,Drake J,Cardarelli J,Hall K,Szabo J,Demmer R,Lindberg M,Riggs K,James R

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00