Ionizing radiation is widely used in various industrial and medical applications, resulting in increased exposure for certain populations. Lessons from radiation accidents and occupational exposure ...

Exposure to ionizing radiation (IR) presents a formidable clinical challenge. Total-body or significant partial-body exposure at a high dose and dose rate leads to acute radiation syndrome (ARS), the ...

Frequent flyers and airline crews face a higher risk of radiation exposure from the sun. The risk is greatest on flights at high altitudes, over the poles or during solar events. Radiation exposure ...

Ever wonder what would happen if you didn’t wear the lead apron they put on you at the dentist’s office or in the operating room? What would actually happen to your body? Better yet, even if you wore ...

Interventional echocardiographers working with suspended lead suits (Zero-Gravity system; Biotronik) during left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) procedures are exposed to significantly less ...

Doses are low on individual flights, but additional research is needed to understand health impacts from exposure.

Radiotherapy is a key foundation of oncologic treatment that is used across the spectrum of cancer indications. Advances in imaging, treatment planning, and dose delivery have led to increasingly ...

Proton therapy may reduce urinary, bowel and sexual side effects in prostate cancer by minimizing radiation exposure to healthy tissue, per Dr. Curtiland Deville Jr. Newer radiation technologies, such ...

Experts say they might, and Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist network has been eager to acquire radioactive material. In the aftermath of September 11, scenarios that have particularly worried ...

Working alongside Poepping, physics and astronomy professor Eugene Wong studies how humans, organs, tissues and cells respond to radiotherapy. Exposing these organs and organoids-on-chip to radiation ...

Q&A with Dr. Preetha Rajaraman, New Vice Chair for the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan In August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the ...

There are various potential scenarios when digital cameras could be exposed to radiation. For instance, photographic equipment could be exposed to radiation during space flight. While technology has ...