Monte Carlo based method for conversion of in-situ gamma ray spectra obtained with a portable Ge detector to an incident photon flux energy distribution.

abstract：:A general method for solving first-order compartmental models (recycling and nonrecycling) with any number of radioactive progeny is described and a heuristic proof of the method is provided. The method can be applied to any system where the progeny are assumed to behave isokinetically with the parent, as is the case ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Birchall A,James AC

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In case of acute exposure to ionizing radiation, the dose absorbed by the victims has to be rapidly and accurately assessed in order to choose an appropriate medical treatment. Tooth enamel and bone biopsies measured by EPR spectrometry are often used as dose indicators, due to the good radiation sensitivity and the s...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Trompier F,Bassinet C,Clairand I

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By testing industry standard techniques for radon progeny evaluation on air sample filters, a new technique is developed to evaluate transuranic activity on air filters by curve fitting the decay curves. The industry method modified here is simply the use of filter activity measurements at different times to estimate ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Hayes RB,Chiou HC

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When patients are exposed to ionizing radiation for medical diagnosis or treatment, the procedure being performed should be justified, and the amount of ionizing radiation used should be commensurate with the medical purpose. A legal limit on the amount of ionizing radiation used for medical exposure of a patient does...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Rosenstein M

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：: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：:A population-based case-control study of thyroid cancer was carried out in contaminated regions of Belarus and Russia among persons who were exposed during childhood and adolescence to fallout from the Chernobyl accident. For each study subject, individual thyroid doses were reconstructed for the following pathways of...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Drozdovitch V,Khrouch V,Maceika E,Zvonova I,Vlasov O,Bratilova A,Gavrilin Y,Goulko G,Hoshi M,Kesminiene A,Shinkarev S,Tenet V,Cardis E,Bouville A

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sources of outdoor and indoor atmospheric radon are examined. The variation of outdoor atmospheric radon with time of day, time of year, altitude and geographic location is quantitatively assessed. Average values of outdoor atmospheric radon concentrations are examined and it is estimated that the mean value for n...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Gesell TF

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many governmental and non-governmental agencies are involved in the planning for radiation events in the U.S. We will focus on medical management after mass casualty events, specifically the involvement of the Radiation Injury Treatment Network (RITN), a voluntary consortium of medical centers across the continental U...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Davids MS,Case C Jr,Confer DL,Weisdorf DJ,Weinstock DM

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discharges of radioactive materials from the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Sellafield in the United Kingdom give rise to 137Cs and 134Cs in fish caught in the Irish Sea. Measurements made on fish catches landed in the Irish Republic show average activities of 68 and 3 Bq/kg (wet) of 137Cs and 134Cs, respectively....

journal_title：Health physics

authors： McAulay IR,Doyle C

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uranium industry in the American Southwest has had profoundly negative impacts on American Indian communities. Navajo workers experienced significant health problems, including lung cancer and nonmalignant respiratory diseases, and psychosocial problems, such as depression and anxiety. There were four uranium proc...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Dawson SE,Madsen GE

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elsewhere in this issue, Robin Elliott outlined a successful program for performing annual radiation safety management program audits. The results of such audits provide a useful means of evaluating and correcting deficiencies or weaknesses in a radiation safety program. At our institution we also perform an annual au...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Miller KL,Erdman MC

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This document describes the attributes of an alpha spectroscopy counting and analysis system called Low Level Pulse Height Analysis (LLPHA). It was developed for multi-sample alpha spectroscopy analysis. The LLPHA system is controlled by a MIK-11/2 microcomputer with 28K of memory and uses a double-density, dual flopp...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Guilmette RA,Archibeque FA

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The data presented show early results from a longitudinal survey of "therapeutic" ultrasonic instrument performance in clinical physiotherapy. Previous studies undertaken in North America and the United Kingdom have shown that these units tend not to be scientifically tested and recalibrated, and have been found to ha...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Fyfe MC,Parnell SM

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During an invited visit to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) gamma knife facility, officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) observed what they considered as an apparent violation of the physical presence requirements specified in 10 CFR 35.615(f)(3). This event initiated an inspection an...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Sheetz M,Swanson D,Yates B

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Open-faced and diffusion-barrier charcoal canisters were individually exposed to a fixed temperature, humidity, and radon concentration in a chamber for a period of 7 d. The radon progeny activity in the canister under study was measured every 3 h. A total of 15 runs were made for the open-faced canisters and nine run...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Luetzelschwab JW,Hastings L,Ellis SM

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following a large-scale radiation emergency, affected populations will need to be screened soon after for potential contamination (external or internal). Effective management of the available resources can help maximize the screening throughputs. This paper reports the modeling results for screening throughputs in a p...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Li C,Capello K,Jeng HA,Hauck B,Kramer GH

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concern about the threat of a terrorist attack with a Radiological Dispersal Device has increased considerably over the last few years, and this comes along with an immense challenge, especially regarding medical treatment of combined injuries with incorporated radioactive fragments. In such scenarios, the identificat...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Majewski M,Nestler K,Veit DA,Diekmeyer B,Waldeck S,Port M,Becker BV

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dose reconstruction of populations potentially affected by the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011 is of great importance. However, it has been difficult to assess internal thyroid doses to Fukushima residents (mainly from their intake of I) due to the lack of direct measurements. F...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Kim E,Yajima K,Hashimoto S,Tani K,Igarashi Y,Iimoto T,Ishigure N,Tatsuzaki H,Akashi M,Kurihara O

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limits for exposure to electromagnetic fields at RF and microwave frequencies have, at times, been subject to criticism and controversy. In many cases the controversy results from a lack of absolute proof that some nominal levels of exposure are safe, from a misunderstanding of how to apply the limits, and from a lack...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Petersen RC

更新日期：1991-07-01 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 apparent risk of childhood leukemia resulting from paternal pre-conception radiation exposure found among children of the Sellafield (West Cumbria, UK) workforce is compared with the apparent risk in a number of other epidemiological studies. In particular, the extent of the incompatibility of the leukemia pre-con...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Little MP,Charles MW,Wakeford R

更新日期：1995-03-01 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：:Medical workers constitute the largest group of individuals occupationally exposed to radiation, and their collective dose equivalent is exceeded only by persons employed in the nuclear fuel cycle. Although medical workers have increased in number by about 50% over the past two decades, their collective dose has stead...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Hendee WR,Edwards FM

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the increasing interest in environmental protection against ionizing radiation on the international scene, the need for operational tools for radiological environmental risk assessment is becoming critical. Within this framework, this paper puts forward a fast and user-friendly computerized method to allow the ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Beaugelin-Seiller K,Jasserand F,Garnier-Laplace J,Gariel JC

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：:Results are presented from a statewide survey that measured annual 222Rn concentrations in over 2000 single-family, owner-occupied homes in New York state. The participants were selected by a random-digit-dialing telephone interview approach developed by Mitofsky-Waksberg which allows inferences to be made from the sa...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Perritt RL,Hartwell TD,Sheldon LS,Cox BG,Clayton CA,Jones SM,Smith ML,Rizzuto JE

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different numerical strategies in searching for orphan radioactive sources in the environment by means of a mobile detector system have been evaluated. A carborne 3- by 3-inch NaI(Tl) spectrometric system was used with an unshielded 2 GBq 137Cs source as a test source. In this paper, a previous method (MB method), bas...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Hjerpe T,Samuelsson C

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to reveal the possible underlying causes of radiation-related health care complaints in the State of Texas, complaint data were evaluated using historical Texas Department of Health-Bureau of Radiation Control (TDH-BRC) reports. A major aim of the study was to generate a summary of the most commonly repor...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Thommen PJ,Emery RJ

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal radiation dose estimates were calculated for women who received oral administrations of 59Fe at Vanderbilt University in the 1940's. A similar dosimetry analysis was performed by Dyer and Brill in 1972; the availability of recently developed physical models of the pregnant female at different stages of gestation...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Stabin MG,Stubbs JB,Russell JR

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00