The way forward for enhancing low-dose radiation risk estimates will require there to be a tight integration of epidemiology data and radiation biology information to meet the goals of relevance and sensitivity of the adverse health outcomes required for overall health risk assessment at low doses ...
Appendix 3.1: Units of Radiation Dose, Risk Estimates and Measurement of Radiation Dose Radiation dose in this chapter has been expressed in terms of absorbed dose and effective dose. The absorbed dose is the amount of energy the radiation deposits in a unit mass of tissue and is measured in ...
Methodology of health risk assessment in using potable water from underground sources with Obninsk as an example. Materials of the 6th International Scientific Conference "Human ecology and nature" Moscow-Ples (5–11 July 2004. Ivanovo). Izd.vo IvGU, pp. 25–28. Google Scholar Download ...
An integrated risk assessment provides efficiency in data gathering, analysis and reporting by enabling risk assessors to use the combined knowledge from many disciplines to evaluate overall risk. This report describes the steps and example information that could be used for an integrated risk ...
In the case of an SPE contingency, the console operator determines the projected exposure from the event and makes appropriate recommendations for crew, for example, sheltering in locations of the ISS that provide greater shielding. SRAG works with the Flight Control Team (FCT) to mitigate ...
Radiation detectors used to monitor workers during177Lu therapy used in this study:aschematic representation of the location of each dosemeter;bwhole-body dosemeters, both passive (InLight or OSL) and active (PED);ceye lens dosemeters attached to the head band;dexample of a hand with the TL...
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview on the concept of sterilization, including the factors affecting sterilization, risk assessment, sterility testing protocols, incubation, examination, and validation of sterility tests. The mechanism of sterilization, indicators used, and various types of ...
For example, we need to examine if the different life stages of H. orientalis can have a higher sensitivity to radiation than the ones predicted for the reference frog used by ICRP8, as a consequence of differences in shape, size or life history between tree frogs, and the parameters ...
A strategy for trying to discover associations between SNPs in any human gene and a specific phenotype; for example, patients showing atypically strong side effects after radiotherapy. Bonferroni correction A multiple-comparisons correction that is applied to reduce the chance of spurious ('false-positi...
For this reason, risk assessment for medical exposure is best evaluated using risk values for organs and tissues and for the actual age and sex distributions of the population of the people undergoing the medical exposure in question. It may be of value, however, to compare exposure from ...