This highly successful manual has served for nearly three decades as the definitive guide to the safe use of radioactive materials. Completely revised and updated, the fourth edition presents a new dimension by adding coverage of nonionizing radiation, and is thus concerned with the entire field of radiation protection. The author takes the novel approach of introducing the whole range of en…
Radiotherapy is well established as an indispensable means of treatment in national cancer control programmes in both developing and developed countries. In radiotherapy, radiation is used directly to destroy malignant tissue. The success of radiotherapy therefore depends on achieving a radiation dose that is high enough to kill malignant tissue yet sufficiently low to preserve to healthy tissu…
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This book consist : Introduction; Summary of the available information on the effects of ionizing radiation on populations; Estimated dose to plants and animals under current radiation protection standards; and Summary and conclusions. (Jml)
Proceedings contains material Opening session; Opening statements; Reports from international organizations on biological effects of ionizing radiation (Background Session 1); Reports on related international conferences (Background Session 2); Meolecular mechanisms of radiation effects: point and clastogenic mutations (Forum 1); Adaptive responses: enhanced repair and apoptosis (Forum 2); Mult…