This book consist : Introduction; Application of dose concepts in biological dosimetry; Biophysical background to chromosome damage; Human lymphocytes; Chromosomal structure; Radiation induced chromosomal alterations; Blood sampling; Dicentric analysis; Traslocation analysis; Premature chromosome condensation (PCC) analysis; The mictronucleus (MN) assay; Automatic analysis of chromosomal altern…
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In february 2001, serious accidental overexposures involving patients who were undergoing post-operative radiotherapy occurred in Poland. The government of Poland requested assistance from the IAEA under the terms of the Convention on assistance in the Case of a Nuclear. Accident or Radiological Emergency. The IAEA assembled and sent to Poland two teams of senior experts from France, Germany, S…
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The revised recommendations of the ICRP in its Publication 60 have led to significant changes in attitudes and to a new culture of radiological protection. Lower dose limits and the requirement to ensure that exposure is as low as reasonably achievable means that detailed attention must be given to radiological aspects from design, through commissioning, operation and maintenance, to eventual d…
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