Comparison of the needs for biodosimetry for large-scale radiation events for military versus civilian populations.

abstract：:Measurements of the gross beta activity of snow samples from four Alpine glaciers contaminated by radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear accident and a gamma-spectrum analysis of selected samples are reported. The results are discussed with respect to possible risks to the population from using meltwater from ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Ambach W,Rehwald W,Blumthaler M,Eisner H,Brunner P

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Internal dose assessment depends on the use of mathematical formulas for dose calculation and models of the human body and its organs. A simple, unified method for internal dose calculations is described, which brings together and simplifies concepts used in nuclear medicine and occupational internal dose systems prev...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Stabin MG,Siegel JA

更新日期：2003-09-01 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：:Sandia National Laboratories' Z-Machine is the world's most powerful electrical device, and experiments have been conducted that make it the world's most powerful radiation source. Because Z-Machine is used for research, an assortment of materials can be placed into the machine; these materials can be subjected to a r...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Culp T

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:So far, in guidelines limiting exposure to electromagnetic fields, basic limits of intracorporal electric current densities have been recommended to prevent from nerve cell stimulation. They were based on experimental data and extrapolated to the general population with limited knowledge on the inter-individual variab...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Leitgeb N,Schröttner J,Cech R

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the steps that has been taken to expedite the radiation dose reconstruction process is the development of "site profiles." These reports, one of which has been prepared for each of the major U.S. Department of Energy nuclear sites, include detailed assessments of the dose rates at a given site due to on-site ex...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Rollins EM

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of the laser safety officer and any laser safety program is to prevent a laser accident from occurring, in particular, one that causes an injury to a person's eyes. Most laser safety courses "in-house commercial" discuss laser accidents, causes, and types of injury. Many do not address appropriate actions to ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Barat K

更新日期：2003-05-01 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：:The predecessor organizations of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) were established in 1929 (the U.S. Advisory Committee on X-Ray and Radium Protection) and in 1946 (the National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurements). In 1964, the NCRP was formally chartered by the U.S....

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Tenforde TS

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Timely achievement of uranium series' secular equilibrium is not always feasible. Our objective is to mathematically justify methods for early uranium series gamma spectroscopy measurements that can accurately predict naturally occurring radioactive material equilibrium activities long before equilibrium is establishe...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Wilson CA 4th,Matthews KL 2nd,Hamideh AM,Wang WH

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The operational radiation protection issues associated with the Z-Machine accelerator located at Sandia National Laboratories are large: a variety of materials can be placed into the machine; these materials can be subjected to a variety of nuclear reactions, producing a variety of activation products. Without full un...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Culp T

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The real-time radiation monitoring system (RMS) in the Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (SRRC) has been upgraded significantly during the past years. The new framework of the RMS is built on the popular network technology, including Ethernet hardware connections and Web-based software interfaces. It features virt...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Sheu RJ,Wang JP,Chen CR,Liu J,Chang FD,Jiang SH

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current feasibility of protecting emergency responders through bone marrow selective shielding is highlighted in the recent OECD/NEA report on severe accident management. Until recently, there was no effective personal protection from externally penetrating gamma radiation. In Chernobyl, first-responders wore make...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Waterman G,Kase K,Orion I,Broisman A,Milstein O

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radioactivity of coals and ashes from Spanish coal power plants (CPP) was evaluated. This radioactivity is due mainly to 40K and the U and Th series. The samples were measured in secular equilibrium using a NaI(T1) detector. The annual average airborne releases were also evaluated. An atmospheric dispersion model ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Alvarez MC,Garzon L

更新日期：1989-11-01 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：:We present a theoretical study of the complex relation between radon and its long-lived progeny implanted in glass surfaces. The well known (extended) Jacobi room model, which is normally used to describe radon and its progeny in a room, was transformed into a two-parameter model revealing a linear correlation between...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Cauwels P,Poffijn A,Mondelaers W,Lahorte P,Masschaele B,Meesen G,Van Deynse A

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper provides information on the effects of distance and attenuation in lead sheet and gypsum board of the 0.511 MeV photon produced by positron annihilation. Exposure rates are projected external to an adult injected with 185 MBq (5 mCi) of 18F in a fluorodeoxyglucose solution and for the same activity in a sma...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Courtney JC,Mendez P,Hidalgo-Salvatierra O,Bujenovic S

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Trinity nuclear test, conducted in 1945, exposed residents of New Mexico to varying degrees of radioactive fallout. Companion papers in this issue have detailed the results of a dose reconstruction that has estimated tissue-specific radiation absorbed doses to residents of New Mexico from internal and external exp...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Cahoon EK,Zhang R,Simon SL,Bouville A,Pfeiffer RM

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：: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：:The Mayak Production Association (MPA) was the first plutonium production plant in the former Soviet Union. Workers at the MPA were exposed to relatively large internal radiation intakes and external radiation exposures, particularly in the early years of plant operations. This paper describes the updated dosimetry da...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Vasilenko EK,Khokhryakov VF,Miller SC,Fix JJ,Eckerman K,Choe DO,Gorelov M,Khokhryakov VV,Knyasev V,Krahenbuhl MP,Scherpelz RI,Smetanin M,Suslova K,Vostrotin V

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Field surveys were carried out at sixteen pulp and paper mills in the United States--seven kraft process, two sulfite process, and seven recycling process mills--for the presence of naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) in precipitates and scales. NORM was detected at three of the kraft mills, one sulfite mi...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Fisher RP,Easty DB

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method to trace back average radon concentrations in dwellings over several decades in time has been developed. This retrospective radon monitor is based on the measurement of the alpha activity of 210Po deposited in volume traps, e.g., spongy materials used for mattresses and cushions. Polyester samples with di...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Oberstedt S,Vanmarcke H

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, medical radiation emergency plans have provided for the receipt and care of a limited number of individuals, usually no more than two or three at any given time. Large numbers of contaminated, uninjured individuals cannot be effectively handled in the emergency departments (EDs) of hospitals as they pre...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Miller K,Groff L,Erdman M,King S

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For much of the 20th century, U.S. radiation protection policies were similar to those elsewhere in the world, in large part because the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) were closely aligned. In the 1970s, several U.S. r...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Boyd MA

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple planar high-purity Ge detectors have been used for the past year to detect, localize and quantify several radionuclides in radiation workers. The advantages of these detectors over NaI(Tl), phoswich, and arrays of planar Ge detectors attached to a single cryostat are illustrated by the results of the measurem...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Palmer HE,Rieksts G

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Residential exposure to radon gas is associated with increased risk of lung cancer, especially in smokers. Most evidence about the health effects of radon has been derived from meta-analyses on global epidemiologic studies, but administrative data can help public health authorities to explore the local impacts. Eighty...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Henderson SB,Rauch SA,Hystad P,Kosatsky T

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnostic radiology dosimeters should comply with International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61674 standard in order to perform measurements with sufficient accuracy and reliability. The calibration of a dosimeter is performed under, and pertains to, reference conditions. However, in most cases, dosimeters are u...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Hourdakis CJ,Boziari A,Manetou A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of the effective diffusion coefficient, De, of 222Rn in concrete are important for accurate determination of transport mechanisms and computer modeling of radon entry into structures. A method for in-situ determination of De as well as the emanation fraction, F, is described. It is based on continuous mea...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Gadd MS,Borak TB

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this paper is to evaluate the risks and doses for the internal contamination of the radiochemistry staff in a high workload medical cyclotron facility. The doses from internal contamination derive from the inhalation of radioactive gas leakage from the cells by personnel involved in the synthesis processes ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Calandrino R,del Vecchio A,Savi A,Todde S,Belloli S

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00