Most of the existing policies deal
with exposure to ionizing radiation.
Not exact matches
«
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.
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.
Some women
with large breasts need more than four views for a complete screening examination, increasing their
exposure to 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.
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.»