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Thank you for your encouragement Re: discussion of "effectivedose"
Title: Thank you for your encouragement Re: discussion of
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Dear Chris
I hope others feel it would be useful. A problem is that few
health physicists have thought about this problem. There are
two books which would provide relevant background (besides NCRP
Report No. 104 on RBE):
Radiation Protection Quantities: A Radical Reappraisal by Jack
Simmons and David Watt
available for Medical Physics Publishing
(www.medicalphysics.org)
and Has Radiation Protection become a health hazard Gunnar
Walinder co-published by Medical Physics Publishing.
The
following articles by Harald Rossi discuss some aspects of the
problem:
Rossi, H.H. Limitation and
assessment in radiation protection. 8th Lauriston Taylor Lecture.
National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement. Bethesda,
MD; 1984.
Rossi, H.H. Sensible radiation protection. Health Physics.70(3): 394;
1996.
[In this article Rossi states
that radiation protection quantities are in a "state of
chaos."]
Rossi, H.H. Zaider, M. Radiogenic lung cancer. The effects of low
doses of low-LET radiation. Rad. and Env. Biophys. 36(2): 85;
1997.
Rossi, H.H. It is Time for Change HPS Newsletter December 1997
pp 8-9
Rossi, H.H. LN-T and Politics HPS Newsletter January 2000
I am
sure there must be other relevant articles but I'm not aware of them.
In 1995 I tried to publish a critique of radiation protection
quantities in Health Physics but it was rejected as "an
attack on NCRP". Of course, that is part of the problem.
Your
suggestions would be welcome. It will take many years before any
changes can be made. Discussing it on the list server should help the
education part of the problem.
Best wishes, John
--
John R. Cameron, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus,UW-Madison
Departments of Medical Physics, Radiology & Physics
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