Sentences with phrase «radiation exposure as»

Operated equipment by adjusting radiation exposure as per duration of treatments while ensuring that all safety measures and regulations are followed while carrying on with the diagnostics

That's just because there wasn't as much radiation exposure as people thought.

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The proposal comes after negotiations between the South Korean firm, workers and their families as well as outside experts over the company's responsibility for the workers, who have attributed illnesses such as lymphoma and leukemia to prolonged exposure to radiation or dangerous chemicals used in Samsung's factories.

Because those who fly on jet airplanes frequently face higher exposure to cosmic radiation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classifies airline crew members as radiation workers.

Reducing exposure as soon and as drastically as possible, Buddemeier says, will also help stave off the long - term effects of radiation, such as cancer or genetic mutations.

From the evolution of differing skin types to cope with the differing exposures to solar radiation as one nears the equator.

For more on how I'm reducing my exposure to microwave radiation, also known as radio frequency radiation (RFR), you'll want to see my write up on Simple Steps to Reduce EMF's.

In addition to experimental research on cancer, there are over 1000 peer reviewed, published papers showing other harmful biological effects from microwave radiation exposure such as damage to sperm, pregnancy and nervous systems.»

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 study notes that indoor tanning products can produce 10 to 15 times as much UV radiation as the midday sun, and supports the recommendation of medical groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, to minimize ultraviolet exposure, including from indoor tanning.

As worries grow over radiation leaks at Fukushima, is it possible to gauge the immediate and lasting health effects of radiation exposure?

There are few ethical ways to find out, however: An accidental decades - long exposure in Taiwan suggests it's not as simple as «more radiation is bad.»

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.

The group analysed publicly available reports from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in areas such as failures of safety systems, the percentage of time that a reactor is not generating, and workers» exposure to radiation.

As a result, several thousand of Fukushima's 2 million residents have been thrust into the middle of a vigorous scientific debate about the health effects of long - term exposure to low levels of radiation.

The radiation exposure of the general population «is too small to give a statistically significant increase in stochastic effects such as cancer,» argues Ohtsura Niwa, professor emeritus of radiation biology at Kyoto University.

«As with other areas of personalized medicine, we would seek to create individual treatment and prevention plans for astronauts we believe would be more susceptible to cognitive deficits from radiation exposure,» she says.

«In the low earth orbit, the high level of exposure to radiation, the extreme temperature fluctuations and the low energy supply are just as great obstacles to overcome.

By «chance» Tomasetti meant the roll of the dice that each cell division represents, leaving aside the influence of deleterious genes or environmental factors such as smoking or exposure to radiation.

«This is quite surprising because glasses and heavily irradiated materials typically exhibit the same density, so that glasses are often used as models to simulate the effect of the exposure to radiations on materials.»

And space physicians still need to find ways to limit other hazards of human spaceflight that don't have anything to do with weightlessness, such as disturbed sleep and exposure to cosmic radiation.

Astrobiologists, who will be presenting their work at the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2013 in London on Monday 9 September, have shown that Raman spectroscopy can be used to detect micro-organisms even after they have been damaged by exposure to very high levels of radiation, as is encountered on the Martian surface.

TEPCO wants to finish the installation «as soon as possible after reviewing the procedures in order to keep the workers» radiation exposure to a minimum,» NHK reported.

Melanoma usually occurs in the skin and is caused by exposure to ultraviolet radiation (such as sunlight).

Writing in MIT's Technology Review, Richard Muller, a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, calculated the radiation exposure — measured in a unit known as the rem — that city residents would receive from a practical dirty bomb.

The cells would be used as a treatment in case a high radiation exposure makes a worker sick.

Because children are known to be more susceptible than adults to risks of cancer from radiation, Physicians for Social Responsibility, a U.S. antinuclear proliferation group, condemned the exposure limit as «unconscionable.»

Dwight Duston, director of science and technology at the Pentagon's Star Wars office, says the free - electron laser, once trumpeted as a weapon for destroying incoming enemy missiles, could be used to produce a beam of high - quality X-rays that would reduce a woman's exposure to radiation during mammography.

Scientists are continuing to research other potential effects of the disaster, such as whether increased incidence of mental retardation is occurring in subsequent generations due to their progenitors» radiation exposure.

One possible solution to quickly measure a population's exposure to radiation in the event of a nuclear disaster or some other large - scale leak of radioactive material — such as a so - called «dirty bomb» attack — would be to scan the body in places where that material is most readily absorbed.

Europa's surface is an extremely hostile environment, as a result of constant exposure to Jupiter's intense radiation belts.

Mutations can be caused by copying errors in the genetic material during cell division and by exposure to radiation, chemicals, or viruses, or can occur deliberately under cellular control during the processes such as meiosis or hypermutation.

As future missions look to travel back to the moon or even to Mars, new research from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center cautions that the exposure to radiation is much higher than previously thought and could have serious implications on both astronauts and satellite technology.

«I believe the conclusions about exposure are generally solidly based; they are believable and reassuring, as well,» says Steven Simon, a radiation epidemiologist at the U.S. National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

To protect her unborn baby, she wore a special low exposure radiation badge on her tummy while pregnant and minimised her exposure to x-rays and gamma rays, as well as avoiding volatile solvents.

Orthopaedic surgery and radiology collaborators have also implemented intraoperative use of low - dose protocols on fluoroscopy machines, which reduces radiation exposure to both patients as well as physicians and staff in the operating room.

Damage of the kind duplicated in the laboratory occurs naturally after exposure to radiation and perhaps also after ingestion of toxic chemicals such as those used in chemotherapy.

As a result, the sources of radiation exposure would be different isotopes for a thorium - based radiation source than uranium - based source, and the relationship between exposure and health effect would be different as welAs a result, the sources of radiation exposure would be different isotopes for a thorium - based radiation source than uranium - based source, and the relationship between exposure and health effect would be different as welas well.

Significant examples include some of the most extensive uranium districts in the world, with residential radiation exposure problems are as poorly addressed as in Chita include:

In their original comic - book incarnation, the Marvel heroes known as the Fantastic Four gained their superpowers thanks to their exposure to a particularly intense cosmic radiation storm.

The long - term health effects of exposure to atomic bomb radiation on survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not as severe as once thought.

The Federal Communications Commission suggests people can take various measures to reduce radiation exposure such as using a speakerphone, earpiece, or headset to limit exposure to the head.

With 3.0 Gy, radiation alone treatment produced significant amount of cell death compared to control as well 2.0 Gy of radiation exposure (Fig. 2).

Cancers related to chronic mutagenic exposures, such as lung cancer (tobacco smoke) and cutaneous melanoma (UV radiation), have the highest rates of somatic mutations.

Studies have shown that exposure of tumor cells to therapeutic doses of radiation activates cell survival signaling pathways such as EGFR - RAS [2 - 5] and its downstream molecules such as ERK1 / 2, PI3K - AKT, JNK, etc. apart from several other signaling molecules [4, 6, 7].

There is no scientific basis for investigating exposure of the growing baby when pregnant mothers use a mobile phone, as exposure to radiofrequency radiation from mobile phones is highly localised to the part of the head closest to the phone; there is no evidence to suggest that other parts of the body, such as the abdomen where the baby is growing, are affected by mobile phone use.

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 B16F10 cells to 1.0 to 3.0 Gy of radiation significantly increased p - ERK1 / 2, p - AKT as well as p - JNK levels.

Although B16F10 cells are without mutations in Braf, Kras or Nras, it is highly possible that mutations in Pdgfra (well known to activate ERK1 / 2) as well as Atm (well known to activate PI3K - AKT) are responsible for the constitutive expression of ERK1 / 2 and AKT in B16F10 cells [24], upon radiation exposure.

In humans, melanocytes function to protect skin from damaging environmental stresses such as ultraviolet radiation exposure (UVR).