Sentences with phrase «ionizing radiation exposure»

Unlike a traditional x-ray, there is no ionizing radiation exposure with this imaging modality.

Flying on an airplane can expose you to a lot since the air is recirculating and there is ionizing radiation exposure.

If you don't have breast cancer when you start screening with mammograms, you probably will years later after all that cumulative ionizing radiation exposure!

Not exact matches

Some risk factors for childhood cancers, including leukemia, have been identified, such as Down syndrome and exposure to ionizing radiation and viruses such as Epstein - Barr virus.

The detector developed at UNH, known as DoSEN, short for Dose Spectra from Energetic Particles and Neutrons, measures and calculates the absorbed dose in matter and tissue resulting from the exposure to indirect and direct ionizing radiation, which can change cells at the atomic level and lead to irreparable damage.

(A sievert is a unit of ionizing radiation equal to 100 rems; a rem is a dosage unit of x-ray and gamma - ray radiation exposure.)

MRIs and ultrasounds do not employ ionizing radiation and yet 20 % of physicians, 6 % of radiologists, and 7 % of technologists attributed radiation exposure to MRIs and 11 % of physicians, 0 % of radiologists, and 7 % of technologists believed an ultrasound used radiation.

«Radiation - related risk is one of the factors that should be considered in the decision to use cardiovascular imaging with ionizing radiation, particularly in younger patients in whom the potential risk of radiation exposure is thought to be higher,» Fazel said.

There is no known way to prevent most types of leukemia, though some types may be prevented by avoiding high doses of ionizing radiation, exposure to the chemical benzene, smoking and certain types of chemotherapy.

A dosimeter that measures exposure to ionizing radiation via the teeth is the furthest along.

Biophysical studies have shown that the damage arising to cells from an exposure to ionizing radiation declines in a linearly manner with decreasing dose, with some damage still occurring even at the lowest doses.

Most of the existing policies deal with exposure to ionizing radiation.

Some women with large breasts need more than four views for a complete screening examination, increasing their exposure to ionizing radiation.

The mechanism of elevated toxicity in HepG2 cells due to combined exposure to ethanol and ionizing radiation.

St. Louis County had previously said that it would be collaborating with the ATSDR on a health study focused on a limited number of cancers known to be associated with exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation.

DCEG investigators are also working to identify novel molecular and genomic signatures in tumors that are linked to germline genetic variants and environmental exposures, such as cigarette smoking and ionizing radiation.

Exposure of tumor cells to clinically relevant low doses of ionizing radiation causes DNA damage and the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS).

Radiation exposure is just one cause of this scrambling (Shirley and others 1992, Gorbunova and Levy 1999) and at least 3,000 different mutant plant varieties created by intentional exposure to ionizing radiation are part of the existing food supply (IAEA 2008).

Radiation Dose Chart — this is a very informative chart of the ionizing radiation dose a person can absorb from various sources in relation to direct exposure.

Ultrasound examinations do not use ionizing radiation, thus there is no radiation exposure to the patient.

David B. Benson — this admittedly still has nothing to do with climatology, but since you speculated, leukemia can easily take as little as 2 - 3 years to develop after exposure to ionizing radiation.

«The committee concludes that current scientific evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that there is a linear, no - threshold dose - response relationship between exposure to ionizing radiation and the development of cancer in humans.»

The BEIR VII or seventh Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation report on «Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation» reconfirmed the previous knowledge that there is no safe level of exposure to radiation — that even very low doses can causeExposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation» reconfirmed the previous knowledge that there is no safe level of exposure to radiation — that even very low doses can causeexposure to radiation — that even very low doses can cause cancer.

TYPICAL WORKING CONDITIONS: Frequent exposure to communicable diseases, toxic substances, ionizing radiation, medicinal preparations and other conditions common to a clinic environment.