Health Physics Society Journal

March 2008, Volume 94, Number 3

The European Space Agency's Columbus module on a overhead crane at the NASA Kennedy Space Center. Columbus will be connected to the International Space Station during the next space shuttle Atlantis mission (STS-122) and will house experiments in medicine, biology, physics, and related disciplines. Research in this issue of Health Physics measured the radiation shielding properties of Kevlar and Nextel, materials used in the walls of Columbus. See article by C. Lobascio et al. on page 242 for more information (Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossman).

REVIEW ARTICLE

Occupational Radiation Doses to Operators Performing Cardiac Catheterization Procedures — Kwang Pyo Kim, Donald L. Miller, Stephen Balter, Ruth A. Kleinerman, Martha S. Linet, Deukwoo Kwon, and Steven L. Simon

PAPERS

Case-Control Study of Lung Cancer Risk from Residential Radon Exposure in Worcester County, Massachusetts — Richard E. Thompson, Donald F. Nelson, Joel H. Popkin, and Zenaida Popkin

Accelerator-Based Tests of Radiation Shielding Properties of Materials Used in Human Space Infrastructures — C. Lobascio, M. Briccarello, R. Destefanis, M. Faraud, G. Gialanella, G. Grossi, V. Guarnieri, L. Manti, M. Pugliese, A. Rusek, P. Scampoli, and M. Durante

Bayesian Hypothesis Testing–Use in Interpretation of Measurements — G. Miller, H. Martz, T. Little, and L. Bertelli

Predictability of Acute Radiation Injury Severity — Tamara V. Azizova, Sergey V. Osovets, Richard D. Day, Maria B. Druzhinina, Margarita V. Sumina, Valentina S. Pesternikova, Igor I. Teplyakov, Aimin Zhang, Michael Kuniak, Evgeny K. Vasilenko, Niel Wald, David M. Slaughter, Nadezhda D. Okladnikova, and Laura Cassidy Schall

Concentrations of ²²⁶Ra, ²³²Th, and ⁴⁰K in the Soils of Bangalore Region, India — N.G. Shiva Prasad, N. Nagaiah, G.V. Ashok, and N. Karunakara

Comparison of Activation Products and Induced Dose Rates in Different High-Energy Medical Linear Accelerators — Helmut W. Fischer, Ben Tabot, and Björn Poppe

²³⁸U, ²³²Th, ²²²Rn, and ²²⁰Rn Concentrations Measured in Various Bottled Mineral Waters and Resulting Radiation Doses to the Members of the European Population Living in the City of Marrakech (Morocco) — M.A. Misdaq and A. Chaouqi

NOTE

Difficulties in Using ²³⁴U/²³⁸U Ratios to Detect Enriched or Depleted Uranium — Robert L. Fleischer

BOOK REVIEW

On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site, Third Edition — Reviewed by Ronald L. Kathren

OTHER CONTENT

In Memoriam—Melvin W. Carter, 1927-2007 — Citation by Thomas S. Tenforde

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Health Physics Society Prospectus

Health Physics Society Affiliate Members

Author Guidelines

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