A Practical Threshold Dose for Bone Tumors in the Classic Study of Radium Dial Painters

Conference · Sun Jun 06 04:00:00 EDT 1999

OSTI ID:786493

Thomas, Robert G

Data from the painters of luminous dials, using radium as the radiation source, are presented. The study of these workers has been reported in the literature for decades, and it derives from what has to be a classic epidemiological study. In fact, this study may be superb among all radioepidemiological studies as it matches the individual's skeletal radiation dose to the biomedical effect, in this case, tumors of the skeleton. Most of the workers, in the early part of this century, were female, and the data to be presented have been limited to this gender. The only data to be presented are from those dial painters in the United States and will not include those from studies in other countries.

• Research Organization: Robert G. Thomas Consultants, Folsom, California (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: None (US)
• OSTI ID: 786493
• Report Number(s): None; ISSN 0003-018X; CODEN TANSAO; ISSN 0003-018X; CODEN TANSAO
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY
DATA
DIAL PAINTERS
NEOPLASMS
POLONIUM 218
RADIATION DOSES
RADIATION SOURCES
RADIUM
SKELETAL DISEASES
SKELETON
THRESHOLD DOSE