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Risk estimates for radiation protection /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor Corporativo: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Bethesda, Maryland :
The Council,
©1993.
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| Colección: | NCRP report ;
no. 115. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Preface
- Contents
- 1. Summary
- 2. Introduction
- 3. United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation Reports
- 3.1 Earlier Reports of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation
- 3.2 The 1988 Report of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation
- 4. Committee on Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiations Reports
- 4.1 Earlier Reports of the Committee on Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiations
- 4.2 The 1990 Report of the Committee on Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiations 5. Comparison of the Reports of the 1988 UNSCEAR and the 1990 BEIR
- 5.1 Data Bases and Analysis
- 5.2 Reasons for Increase in Risk Estimates
- 6. Critiques of the Reports of the 1988 UNSCEAR and the 1990 BEIR
- 6.1 Data Bases
- 6.2 Dose and Relative Biological Effectiveness
- 6.3 Dose-Response Curves
- 6.4 Risks at Low-Dose Rates and with Protracted Exposures
- 6.5 Dose-Rate Effectiveness Factors
- 6.6 Age and Sex Dependence
- 6.7 Risk-Projection Models
- 6.8 Transfer of Risks to Other Populations 6.9 Estimates of Risk for Working Populations
- 6.10 Competing Causes of Mortality and Independence of Risks
- 6.11 Summary of New Risk Estimates for Cancer Mortality
- 7. In Utero Irradiation and Childhood Cancer
- 8. Radiation Effects in Children of Irradiated Parents
- 9. Cancer and Alpha-Particle Emitting Radionuclides
- 9.1 Radon
- 9.2 Radium
- 9.3 Thorium
- 9.4 Transuranic Elements
- 9.5 Summary
- 10. Iodine Radioisotopes and Thyroid Cancer
- 11. Hereditary Effects
- 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Estimates of Genetic Risk
- 11.3 Doubling Dose and Dominant Diseases
- 11.4 Aneuploidy Introduction
- 11.5 Translocations
- 11.6 Irregularly Inherited Diseases
- 11.7 Risk Estimates: Atomic-Bomb Studies
- 11.8 Summary of Risk Estimates
- 12. Radiation Effects on Brain
- 12.1 Radiation Effects on the Brain of the Embryo/Fetus
- 12.2 Radiation Effects on Intelligence
- 12.3 Studies of Radiation-Therapy Patients
- 13. The Relative Contributions of Fatal Cancers of Different Sites to the Detriment Induced by Radiation
- 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Sex
- 13.3 Age
- 13.4 National Populations and Transfer Models
- 13.5 United States Population Versus the International Commission on Radiological Protection Average Population
- 13.6 Expected Years of Life Lost from Fatal Cancer in Organs Versus Sex, Age, Population, and Model
- 13.7 Comparison of Estimates of Fatal Cancer Risks in Organs in 1991 With Those of 1977
- 14. Detriment Due to Radiation Exposure at Low Doses
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Estimate of the Detriment
- 14.3 Tissue Weighting Factors