Health Physics Society Journal

July 2009, Volume 97, Number 1

On the cover: Opening Day at the IRPA 12 Congress. See article by Abel J. González on page 6 for more information.

CONTENTS

COMMENTARIES

NCRP Report No. 160, Ionizing Radiation Exposure of the Population of the United States, Medical Exposure—Are We Doing Less with More, and Is There a Role for Health Physicists? — D.A. Schauer and O.W. Linton

The 12^th Congress of the International Radiation Protection Association: Strengthening Radiation Protection Worldwide — Abel J. González

PAPERS

Evaluation of Total Effective Dose Due to Certain Environmentally Placed Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials Using a Procedural Adaptation of RESRAD Code — Z.S. Beauvais, K.H. Thompson, and K.J. Kearfott

Prediction of Frequency and Exposure Level of Solar Particle Events — Myung-Hee Y. Kim, Matthew J. Hayat, Alan H. Feiveson, and Francis A. Cucinotta

NOTE

In Vivo Quantification of ¹⁸F-FDG Uptake in Human Placenta During Early Pregnancy — Paolo Zanotti-Fregonara, Sebastien Jan, Christophe Champion, Régine Trébossen, Renaud Maroy, Jean-Yves Devaux, and Elif Hindié

OTHER CONTENT

In Memoriam—Patricia W. Durbin

News and Notices

Health Physics Society Prospectus

Health Physics Society Affiliate Members

Author Guidelines

Advertisers Guide

Advertisers Index

Up and Coming

Health Physics (ISSN 0017-9078) is the Official Journal of the Health Physics Society and is published monthly by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 351 West Camden Street, Baltimore, MD 21201-2436. For news and abstracts, and to search past issues of the Health Physics Journal, please visit the Health Physics Journal website.