"A lot of the work that's currently being done in this field is looking at alternatives to lead for gamma protection," said Terry Thiem.
A new paper published in EPJ Plus and authored by Eduardo De Paiva, from the Division of Medical Physics at the Institute of Radiation Protection and Dosimetry, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pits the gold ...
The mining of uranium has sustainably fueled the fleet of nuclear power plants in the world and will continue to do so in the coming decades. How can the workers involved in the mining and processing ...
An IAEA research project involving 27 countries has strengthened global understanding of how exposure to ionizing radiation affects human health. The project focused on the clinical applications of ...
According to the IAEA’s latest bulletin, the work focused on clinical applications of biodosimetry — the use of biological responses to estimate the amount of ionising radiation a patient receives.
The risk to children's health from X-ray radiation is easy to reduce without compromising diagnostic accuracy. Gerhard Alzen and Gabriele Benz-Bohm describe some ways to achieve this in the current ...
Door-to-balloon times were no higher than when cath lab staff donned traditional lead aprons in this single-center experience ...
The damaging impacts of ionizing radiation on biological tissues are well documented. Since its discovery, mankind has worked to safeguard the public and the army in the case of the employment of ...
A method using augmented reality to create accurate visual representations of ionising radiation, developed at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been licensed by ...