Lauriston S. Taylor Lecture on radiation protection and measurements: what makes particle radiation so effective?

abstract：:RESRAD-RECYCLE is a computer code designed by Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) to be used in making decisions about the disposition of radioactively contaminated materials and scrap metals. It implements a pathway analysis methodology to evaluate potential radiation exposures resulting from the recycling of contamina...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Cheng JJ,Kassas B,Yu C,Amish J,LePoire D,Chen SY,Williams WA,Wallo A,Peterson H

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of medical countermeasures against the acute gastrointestinal subsyndrome of the acute radiation syndrome in humans requires well characterized and validated animal models. These models must adhere to the criteria of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Animal Rule and consider the natural history a...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： MacVittie TJ,Farese AM,Bennett A,Gelfond D,Shea-Donohue T,Tudor G,Booth C,McFarland E,Jackson W 3rd

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Instrumentation and application methodologies for rapidly and accurately estimating individual ionizing radiation dose are needed for on-site triage in a radiological/nuclear event. One such methodology is an in vivo X-band, electron paramagnetic resonance, physically based dosimetry method to directly measure the rad...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Swarts SG,Sidabras JW,Grinberg O,Tipikin DS,Kmiec MM,Petryakov SV,Schreiber W,Wood VA,Williams BB,Flood AB,Swartz HM

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the purpose of improving retrospective internal thyroid dose estimations for children and adolescents following the Chernobyl accident, age- and gender-dependent thyroid masses have been estimated for the children of Kiev and Zhytomyr oblasts, which are two of the most contaminated regions of Northern Ukraine. For...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Likhtarov I,Kovgan L,Masiuk S,Chepurny M,Ivanova O,Gerasymenko V,Boyko Z,Voillequé P,Antipkin Y,Lutsenko S,Oleynik V,Kravchenko V,Tronko M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commercial nuclear power plants release gaseous and liquid radiological effluents into the environment as by-products of electrical generation. In the U.S. these releases are monitored by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (U.S. NRC) and Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA). Traditionally these releases have alwa...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Harris JT,Miller DW

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review/commentary addresses recent thermal and electromagnetic modeling studies that use image-based anthropomorphic human models to establish the local absorption of radiofrequency energy and the resulting increase in temperature in the body. The frequency range of present interest is from 100 MHz through the tr...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Foster KR,Ziskin MC,Balzano Q,Bit-Babik G

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：:Emergency responders from the Department of Energy are trained regularly to assess the environmental consequences of a radiological or nuclear incident. While drills and exercises are highly effective tools in rehearsing for an emergency, the accidents at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants presented real-world...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Musolino SV,Clark H,McCullough T,Pemberton W

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flows in lung bifurcations are complicated by geometry, and it is recognized that accurate lung dosimetric models require realistic calculations of the flow and particle deposition patterns. A computational fluid dynamics study of flow and particle concentration has been carried out for a lung bifurcation based on the...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Kinsara AA,Tompson RV,Loyalka SK

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed radioactive and chemical wastes generated by biomedical research were characterized, and various treatment methods for reducing their volume were evaluated. These wastes consist primarily of organic solvents used in the extraction and purification of radiolabeled biomolecules that are contaminated with low level...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Linins I,Klein RC,Gershey EL

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma-ray spectra were measured from Scottish heather honey samples gathered from hive locations with associated airborne gamma-ray survey data. The honeys all contained radiocesium, with activity concentrations ranging from 43-680 Bq kg(-1) 137Cs, and 134Cs/137Cs ratios consistent with Chernobyl deposition. Activity ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Fisk S,Sanderson DC

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

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：:Study of the sorption of 99mTc radiopharmaceutical compounds by soils has assessed the fate of these compounds in the event of a surface spill and examined the potential of these compounds as hydrologic tracers. Sorption from deionized water, filtered Missouri River water, and artificial seawater by five surface soils...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Jurisson S,Gawenis J,Landa ER

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immersion doses from external exposure to a Gaussian plume of noble gases accidentally released into the atmosphere have been calculated. A numerical integration procedure employing Gauss-Legendre of 64th order has been used. The numerical procedure allows calculating the dose rate at any downwind horizontal or ve...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Raza S,Avila R

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of a spallation neutron source with a mercury target will lead to the production of rare radionuclides. The dose coefficients for many of these radionuclides have not yet been published. A collaboration of universities and national labs has taken on the task of calculating dose coefficients for the rar...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Arndt A,Shanahan J,Gold C,Brey R,Gesell T,Patton P,Rudin M,Eckerman K,Rusetski V,Pagava S

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Federal agencies have a variety of roles and responsibilities related to communicating with the public before, during, and after a radiological emergency. To better understand the various efforts currently underway, the Radiation Studies Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention convened a roundtable of...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Miller CW,McCurley MC

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experience gained during a field training exercise with a Medical Reserve Corps unit on the screening of large groups of individuals for possible contamination with radioactive material revealed that while exercise participants were generally attentive to the proper use of protective equipment and detectors, they tend...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Emery RJ,Sprau DD,Morecook RC

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The estimated values of time-integrated dose equivalent are different if one assumes continuous intake, such as is the case for longer-term environmental exposures, instead of instantaneous intake, which is the assumption made for most standardized computational procedures. This paper presents the solutions of the fir...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Manuca D,Kearfott KJ

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of x-ray generators for diagnostic radiology in the medical sector in Cameroon, Central Africa, is wide spread and on the increase in recent times. Regulatory control of x-ray machines used in medical sector has been achieved in the Littoral Region of Cameroon by means of notification and authorization systems...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Beyala Ateba JF,Simo A,Moyo Ndontchueng M,Sabouang JF

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary objectives of two companion manuscripts were to assess the natural history of delayed radiation-induced lung injury in a nonhuman primate model of acute high-dose, partial-body irradiation with 5% bone marrow sparing, to include the clinical, radiographic, and histopathological evidence and the effect of N...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： MacVittie TJ,Farese AM,Parker GA,Jackson W 3rd

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation doses to workers at the Manhattan Engineer District (MED) and Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) sites due to external irradiation during 1940-1960 are reviewed. Categorized radiation dose data were available from AEC annual reports for some years. Annual individual radiation dose data for nine MED/AEC sites for...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Strom DJ,Smith MH,Swinth KL,Pettengill HJ

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemopoietic stem cell assays allow investigation of local radiation damage at any time after contamination. These techniques were used to determine the relative effectiveness of 241Am and 226Ra in inducing damage in various cortical and trabecular bone marrow sites. Male Balb/c mice were injected with either 230 or 6...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Schoeters GE,Vanderborght OL

更新日期：1983-01-01 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 foodstuff survey was performed around the Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina. It included a census of buildings and fields within 5 km of the boundary and determination of the locations and amounts of crops grown within 80 km of the Savannah River Site center. Recent information for this region was collected...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Twining S,Strydom J,Rosson R,Koffman L,Fledderman P,Kahn B

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depleted uranium (DU) munitions were initially used by the United States (U.S.) military during the first Persian Gulf War in 1991 in order to penetrate heavily armored vehicles. However, as a result of friendly fire, several U.S. military personnel received intakes from DU munitions. One of the ongoing concerns for t...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Walkingstick MT,Krage ES,Brey RR

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential harm to a population exposed to radiation from a nuclear accident, such as the one that recently occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union, is of concern to many individuals. The average dose to a population is a useful index of harm (IH) only for linear, nonthreshold-type, quantal (i.e., all-o...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Scott BR

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The method presented provides an alternative to the shadow shield method for experimentally measuring the contribution due to scattering radiation in a calibration range. Scattering of 0.6616 MeV photons from a Cs irradiator in a calibration range does not only occur due to the walls and floor of the range. It also oc...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Rowan MS,Blue TE,Lahti E,Talnagi J,Herminghuysen K,Petrie CM

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：: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