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March HP journal TOC




Hi All,


Here is the March 1997 Health Physics Table of Contents.

Bruce Busby
bbusby@umich.edu


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HEALTH PHYSICS
Schedule of Contents Volume 72, No. 3,  March 1997

On the Cover: A left hand which suffered an accidental radiation injury.
See the article by Berger et al. on page 343 for more information. Photo
courtesy of Dr. Rafael Hurtado Monroy, Hospital Angeles del Pedregal,
Mexico City, Mexico.


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REVIEW PAPER

Accidental Radiation Injury to the Hand:
Anatomical and Physiological Considerations
Mary Ellen Berger, Rafael Hurtado, James Dunlap,
Osvaldo Mutchinick, Manuel Garcia Velasco,
Roberto Alvarez Tostado, Raul Alvarez Tostado,
Jorge Valenzuela, and Robert C. Ricks			Page - 343

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NEWS ON THE NET

The Internet and its Uses
Bruce Busby						Page - 349

PAPERS
__________________________________________________________

Proposed Model for Estimating Dose to
Inhabitants of 60Co Contaminated Buildings
John Cardarelli, II, Larry Elliott, 
Richard Hornung, and Wushou P. Chang			Page - 351

Dose Equivalents to Neutron Therapy Facility
Staff due to Induced Activation
M. Yudelev, R. L. Maughan, L. E. Jordan,
and R. Saxena						Page - 361

A Statistical Analysis of the Internal Organ
Weights of Normal Japanese People
Nobuko Ogiu, Yuji Nakamura, Iwao Ijiri,
Kouichi Hiraiwa, and Toshiaki Ogiu			Page - 368

Concentrations of 137Cs and 40K in Edible
Mushrooms Collected in Japan and Radiation Dose
Due to their Consumption
Tadaaki Ban-nai, Yasuyuki Muramatsu,
and Satoshi Yoshida					Page - 384

Collective Biodosimetry as a Dosimetric
 Gold Standard": A Study of Three Radiation
Accidents
Barry Pass, Alexander E. Baranov, 
Eugene D. Kleshchenko, John E. Aldrich,
Patricia L. Scallion, and Robert P. Gale		Page - 390

Ambient Air Sampling for Tritium ---
Determination of Breakthrough Volumes and
Collection Efficiencies for Silica Gel Adsorbent
Gregory W. Patton, Andrew T. Cooper, Jr.,
and Michael R. Tinker					Page - 397

Electrophysiological Considerations Relevant
to the Limiting of Pulsed Electric and
Magnetic Fields
Kari Jokela						Page - 408

Solubility Characterization of Airborne Uranium
from an In Situ  Uranium Processing Plant
Robert Metzger, Donna Wichers, John Vaselin,
and Pablo Velasquez					Page - 418

Calibration of a Portable Tritium-in-Air Monitor
for various Radioactive Gases
M. J. Wood, A. Hong, W. G. Cross, J. C. Nunes,
and J. W. Leon						Page - 423

Radiocesium Body Burdens in Residents of 
Northern Canada from 1963-1990
B. L. Tracy, G. H. Kramer, J. M. Zielinski,
and H. Jiang						Page - 431


A Modified Bottle Manikin Phantom for In Vivo
Neutron Activation Analysis
S. Yasumura, R. Ma, D. A. Weber, F. A. Dilmanian,
M. Zhao, A. F. LoMonte, R. I. Moore, R. Skelany,
and R. N. Pierson, Jr.					Page - 443


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FORUM

Setting Standards for Radiation Protection:
The Process Appraised
H. Wade Patterson					Page - 450

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NOTES

Detection Limits for Samples that give rise to
Counting Data with Extra-Poisson Variance
Mark A. Tries						Page - 458

Examination of the Effect of Counting Geometry
on 125I Monitoring Using MCNP
Gary H. Kramer and Suzanne Yiu				Page - 465

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OPERATIONAL TOPICS

A Proposed Method to Minimize Waste from
Institutional Radiation Safety Surveillance
Programs through the Application of Expected
Value Statistics
R. J. Emery						Page - 471

Hospital Discharge Policy in Thyroid Cancer
Patients Treated with 131I: The Effect of changing
from Fixed Time to Exposure Rate Threshold
Hooshang Mohammadi and Mohsen Saghari			Page - 476

A Novel Portable Grab Sampler for Tritiated
Water Vapor
S. Zaromb, A. Justus, W. Munyon, D. Reilly 
and B. Chen						Page - 481

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CORRESPONDENCE

Some Critical Remarks on the Use of
Sex-Specific Tissue Weighting Factors
for Effective Dose Equivalent Calculations
Maria Zankl and Gnter Drexler				Page - 486

Response to Zankl and Drexler
X. George Xu						Page - 488

Radon Study Shows Little Correlation
Daniel J. Strom						Page - 488

Response to D. J. Strom
B. Cohen						Page - 489

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BOOK REVIEW

Applied Physics for Radiation Oncology
Patton H. McGinley					Page - 491


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