Health Physics Society Journal

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Contents of January 2005, Volume 88, Number 1

REVIEW ARTICLES

Operational Health Physics — Kenneth L. Miller

PAPERS

Non-Cancer Thyroid Diseases among Children in the Kaluga and Bryansk Regions of the Russian Federeation Exposed to Radiation Following the Chernobyl Accident — Victor K. Ivanov, Sergey Yu. Chekin, Vladimir S. Parshin, Oleg K. Vlasov, Marat A. Maksioutov, Anatoli F. Tsyb, Vladimir A. Andreev, Masaharu Hoshi, Shunichi Yamashita, and Yoshisada Shibata

A Revised Model for Electron Dosimetry in the Human Small Intestine — N. U. Bhuiyan and J. W. Poston, Sr.

Uncertainties in Electron-Absorbed Fractions and Lung Doses from Inhaled Beta-Emitters — Eduardo B. Farfán, Wesley E. Bolch, Thomas E. Huston, Didier A. Rajon, Chulhaeng Huh, and W. Emmett Bolch

Neutron Spectra and Dosimetric Features around an 18 MV Linear Accelerator — R. Barquero, R. Mendez, H. R. Vega-Carrillo, M. P. Iñiguez, and T. M. Edwards

Interlaboratory Comparison of Three Methods for the Determination of the Radon Exhalation Rate of Building Materials — P. de Jong, W. van Dijk, W. de Vries, E. R. van der Graaf, and L. M. M. Roelofs

Influence of Soil and Buildings on Outdoor Gamma Dose Rates in São Paulo, Brazil — F. H. M. Medeiros and E. M. Yoshimura

NOTES

Increased Lung Cancer Risk Due to Residential Radon in a Pooled and Extended Analysis of Studies in Germany — H.-Erich Wichmann, Angelika Schaffrath Rosario, Iris M. Heid, Michaela Kreuzer, Joachim Heinrich, and Lothar Kreienbrock

A New Phantom for Use in Whole Body Counters: A Monte Carlo Design Project — Gary H. Kramer, Kevin Capello, and Arnon Ho

Radioactive Analysis of Cement and Its Products Collected from Shaanxi, China — Lu Xinwei

OTHER CONTENT

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Health Physics Society Prospectus

Health Physics Society Affiliate Members

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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.