Ionizing radiation

This project sought to locate articles containing data on radiation dosimetry in outer space, to use those data to create a Location Exposure Matrix (LEM) for equivalent radiation doses in extraterrestrial environments, and then apply the LEM to the study of US astronaut mortali…

This Descriptive study sought to investigate nurses' knowledge, feelings beliefs, and thoughts about ionizing radiation as no other study, to this author's knowledge, had done so. To this end, 600 surveys were sent to registered nurses in the New York metropolitan area. A total …

Ionizing radiation can cause acute and long-term damage to brain tissue following radiotherapy for CNS tumors. The purpose of this research was to investigate the short-term and long-term effects of single and fractionated irradiation on cerebral microvasculature. Two major feat…

The structure of the health service in Iran has been described and the role and position of Radiology within the service explained. A comparison has been made between the current basic recommendations and requirement of the IAEA for a radiology service and requirements as laid d…

Color changes observed in irradiated meat were found to be species- and package-type dependent. Irradiated vacuum-packaged (VP) pork and turkey became redder following to irradiation relative to unirradiated controls. However, irradiated VP beef decreased in redness as compared …