Radiation Exposure Monitoring (REM) is a framework developed by Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), for utilizing existing technical standards...

direct result of their exposure to radiation under certain circumstances Radiation Exposure Monitoring, a system for monitoring exposure This disambiguation...

generate a significant radiation dose. An example of this is radon monitoring. The largest single source of radiation exposure to the general public is...

harmful effects of exposure to ionizing radiation, and the means for achieving this". Exposure can be from a source of radiation external to the human...

assessment or control of exposure to radiation or radioactive substances, and the interpretation of the results. Environmental monitoring is the measurement...

exposed to high amounts of ionizing radiation in a short period of time. Symptoms can start within an hour of exposure, and can last for several months....

method of determining radiation exposure. They are now largely superseded by electronic personal dosimeters for short term monitoring. These use a conventional...

psychosocial consequences can outweigh the direct physical health impacts of radiation exposure."" The world's first nuclear reactor meltdown was the NRX reactor...

(shielding, holdup, etc.) Environmental assessment, radiation monitoring and radon evaluation Operational radiation protection/health physics Particle accelerator...

ionizing radiation. This is especially important for unforeseen and accidental exposures, where radiation exposures occur without physical dose monitoring. Biological...

internal exposure, humans also receive external exposure from radioactive materials that remain outside the body and from cosmic radiation from space...

health hazard if proper measures against excessive exposure are not taken. Exposure to ionizing radiation causes cell damage to living tissue and organ damage...

equivalent dose (BED) is an informal unit of measurement of ionizing radiation exposure, intended as a general educational example to compare a dose of radioactivity...

cancer based on the disputed linear no-threshold model of ionizing radiation exposure. To calculate the value of stochastic health risk in sieverts, the...

Exposure of skin to ultraviolet radiation from sunlight presents both positive and negative health effects. On the positive side, UV exposure enables...

are ionizing radiation and exposure can be hazardous to health, causing DNA damage, cancer and, at higher intensities, burns and radiation sickness. Their...

Electromagnetic radiation can be classified into two types: ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation, based on the capability of a single photon...

years or decades after exposure. High doses can cause visually dramatic radiation burns, and/or rapid fatality through acute radiation syndrome. Controlled...

No. 30 "Practical Radiation Monitoring" Oct 2002 – National Physical Laboratory, Teddington Q&A: Health effects of radiation exposure, BBC News, 21 July...

conservative Linear no-threshold model of radiation exposure, which assumes that even the smallest amount of radiation exposure has a negative health effect. The...

are familiar effects of exposure of the skin to UV, along with an increased risk of skin cancer. The amount of UV radiation produced by the Sun means...

low levels of radiation that have a probability of causing damage. A whole-body acute exposure to 5 grays or more of high-energy radiation usually leads...

absorbed doses within radiotherapy. The roentgen, used to quantify the radiation exposure, may be related to the corresponding absorbed dose by use of the F-factor...

unit of measurement for the exposure of X-rays and gamma rays, and is defined as the electric charge freed by such radiation in a specified volume of air...

gas monitor's sample chamber. In monitoring, the region of deposition of this material onto the filter medium is continuously viewed by a radiation detector...

A beta particle, also called beta ray or beta radiation (symbol β), is a high-energy, high-speed electron or positron emitted by the radioactive decay...

are unavailable. The absorbed dose is equal to the radiation exposure (ions or C/kg) of the radiation beam multiplied by the ionization energy of the medium...

monitors measure the exposure to electromagnetic radiation in certain ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum. This article concentrates on monitors used...

the exposures to pollutants by monitoring the pollutant concentrations reaching the respondents. The pollutant concentrations are directly monitored on...

exposure to ionizing radiation increases the risk of cancer. Thus "ionizing radiation" is somewhat artificially separated from particle radiation and...