Medical effects of ionizing radiation
This book provides insights into published data on radiation effects in an informative summary style that will be valuable to the clinician, research scientist and health physicist. Integrating all the issues surrounding medical radiation is challenging, but well met here. Especially noteworthy are the chapters on the direct acute effects of high-dose radiation and on dose-response models for carcinogenesis. References are up to date through 1994, but important research conducted in years past is also well covered. Topics range from basic principles of physics to hormesis. The chapters thus have something for everyone: genetic effects, carcinogenesis, acute high-dose effect, in utero exposure, interaction with other environmental or host factors, probability of causation and risk perception. The coverage of hard-to-find topics coupled with extensive references are unique strengths of this text.
- OSTI ID:
- 160193
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: DN: From review by John D. Boice, Jr. and Robert W. Miller, National Cancer Institute in Radiation Research; Vol. 144, No. 1 (Oct 1995); PBD: 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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