Retinal damage from intense visible light.

abstract：:Institutional radiation safety programs routinely use wipe test sampling and liquid scintillation counting analysis to indicate the presence of removable radioactive contamination. Significant volumes of liquid waste can be generated by such surveillance activities, and the subsequent disposal of these materials can s...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Emery RJ

更新日期：1997-03-01 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：: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：:This article reviews studies of progenitor mobilization with gamma-tocotrienol (GT3), a tocol under advanced development as a radiation countermeasure for acute radiation syndrome (ARS). GT3 protects mice against high doses of ionizing radiation and induces high levels of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)....

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Singh VK,Fatanmi OO,Verma A,Newman VL,Wise SY,Romaine PL,Berg AN

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The monetary value of the averted dose is a key element in the implementation of the optimization principle both in radiation praxis and intervention. The main concept of this principle is to select options so as to maintain exposures at a reasonable level. The feature of this concept is to look for the minimal total ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Eged K,Kanyár B,Kis Z,Tatay T,Ivády A,Volent G

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Program Area Committee 5 of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) focuses its activities on environmental radiation and radioactive waste issues. The Committee completed a number of reports in these subject areas, most recently NCRP Report No. 175, Decision Making for Late-Phase Recovery...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Chen SY,Napier B

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on occupational radiation exposure from nuclear medicine procedures for the time period of the 1950s through the 1970s is important for retrospective health risk studies of medical personnel who conducted those activities. However, limited information is available on occupational exposure received by physicians a...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Drozdovitch V,Brill AB,Mettler FA Jr,Beckner WM,Goldsmith SJ,Gross MD,Hays MT,Kirchner PT,Langan JK,Reba RC,Smith GT,Bouville A,Linet MS,Melo DR,Lee C,Simon SL

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The (90)Sr and (137)Cs activities of soil, plant, and milk samples from the village of Dolon, located close to the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site in Kazakhstan, were determined. The areal deposition at the nine sampling sites is in the range of <500 to 6,100 Bq m(-2) and 300 to 7,900 Bq m-2 for (90)Sr and (137)Cs, re...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Gastberger M,Steinhäusler F,Gerzabek MH,Hubmer A,Lettner H

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exposure of German aircraft crews to cosmic radiation varies both with solar activity and operational factors of airline business. Data come from the German central dose registry and cover monthly exposures of up to 37,000 German aircraft crewmembers that were under official monitoring. During the years 2004 to 20...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Frasch G,Kammerer L,Karofsky R,Schlosser A,Stegemann R

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Findings of the Life Span Study (LSS) cohort of atomic-bomb survivors are a primary source for quantitative risk estimates that underlie radiation protection. Because of the size and length of follow-up, the LSS provides considerable information on both the nature of the dose response and on how radiation-associated e...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Preston DL,Pierce DA,Shimizu Y,Ron E,Mabuchi K

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radioactive seed localization procedures, using I seeds of typical activity 3.7 MBq and higher, are performed to localize nonpalpable lesions in the breast for surgical excision and pathology analysis. This study evaluated the use and dosimetry of I seeds of activity <3.7 MBq in radioactive seed localization procedure...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Brost E,Prather A,Naik H,Jafari ME

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：:This paper describes two nondestructive measurement techniques for determining the radioactivity in a homogeneous organ phantom with an acceptable error and the capability of being traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. These two techniques are based on a method developed by Robley D. Evans i...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Hui TE,Nichols LL,Olsen PC,McDonald JC

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant portion of the cost for D&D is related to low-level waste disposal, decontamination, and final radiological survey. For that reason, a careful cost-benefit analysis must be performed weighing the cost of decontaminating and radiologically surveying the building media for release against the cost of dispo...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Barroso J,Roberts S

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several soil samples of Bangalore region were analyzed for the concentrations of Ra, Th, and K by gamma ray spectrometry. The concentration of Ra varied in the range 7.7-111.6 Bq kg with a mean value of 26.2 Bq kg, Th in the range 16.7-98.7 Bq kg with a mean of 53.1 Bq kg, and that of K in the range 151.8-1424.2 Bq kg...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Prasad NG,Nagaiah N,Ashok GV,Karunakara N

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike detached or semi-detached houses, the main source of indoor radon in high-rise buildings is the building material. Radon released from the building material will be removed by ventilation, either forced or natural, so that its concentration, its progeny's concentration, and the equilibrium between the two will ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Leung JK,Tso MY,Ho CW

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

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 3H concentration in Japanese human tissue samples is reported in this paper. Four brain, 10 liver, and nine lung samples from 11 cases were collected from Akita Prefecture in northern Japan from January to July 1986. The median of free-water 3H concentration was similar in these tissues and agreed well with the co...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Hisamatsu S,Takizawa Y,Itoh M,Ueno K,Katsumata T,Sakanoue M

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation sickness is challenging to diagnose, and the diagnosis is often based on nonclinical data. In accidents where patients are not aware of their exposure to radiation (so-called "occult exposures"), a correct diagnosis can take weeks or months. The purpose of this study is to review the time to diagnosis of rad...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Kunkler J,Adams TG,Manger M,Casagrande R

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This survey measured radiofrequency (RF) fields from wireless local area networks (WLANs) using Wi-Fi technology against a background of RF fields in the environment over the frequency range 75 MHz-3 GHz. A total of 356 measurements were conducted at 55 sites (including private residences, commercial spaces, health ca...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Foster KR

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is pointed out that induction of lung cancer by exposure to Rn daughters, applied at high doses to miners and at low doses to exposures in homes, provides a very stringent and sensitive test of the linear, no-threshold dose-response relationship for high-LET radiation, because this relationship predicts that a subs...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Cohen BL

更新日期：1987-05-01 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：: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：:The air-kerma rate constant gamma delta (and its precursors), as one of the basic radiation characteristics of 192Ir, was determined by many authors. Analysis of accessible data on this quantity led us to the conclusion that published data strongly disagree. That is the reason we calculated this quantity on the basis ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Ninković MM,Raiĉevìć JJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:A mathematical model describing the dynamics of lymphopoiesis in mammals continuously exposed to ionizing radiation has been developed. It is based on the theory of chalone regulation of hematopoiesis. The model comprises a system of nine differential equations. Results from the model were compared with our experiment...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Zukhbaya TM,Smirnova OA

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical simulations and benchmark measurements were performed to assess the impact that normal variations in human calcium content have on in vivo K x-ray fluorescence measurements of lead in bone. Four sets of cortical bone tissue simulants were fabricated containing from 20.8% to 23.8% calcium (by weight) for m...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Lodwick CJ,Lodwick JC,Spitz HB

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The revised standard for sampling effluent air from stacks and ducts of the nuclear industry places limits on the non-uniformity of velocity and contaminant profiles at the sampling location; namely, the coefficients of variation must not exceed 20% over an area that encompasses at least the center 2/3 of the cross se...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： McFarland AR,Gupta R,Anand NK

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Often, the radiation exposure levels around brachytherapy patient rooms exceed the limits allowed by Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulations and National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP) recommendations. Since a neighboring patient may be present in the radiation field from a brachytherapy patient, or pa...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Thomadsen B,van de Geijn J,Buchler D,Paliwal B

更新日期：1983-09-01 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