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Radiation Epidemiology Branch

2004 Radiation Epidemiology Course Presentations

Presentations | Speakers | Suggested Reading

Presentation Presenter
Welcome and Introduction [pdf, 2.2mb]
Orientation
Course objectives and overview of schedule
Sources of radiation exposure
Spectrum of health effects
Peter Inskip
Principles of Radiation Physics and Dosimetry [pdf, 5.0mb] Steven L. Simon
Basic Radiation Chemistry [pdf, 653kb] Miral Dizdaroglu
Radiation Chemistry of DNA Damage [pdf, 1.1mb] Miral Dizdaroglu
Essential Radiobiology for the Radiation Epidemiologist [pdf, 3.6mb] David Brenner
Cellular Defenses Against Radiation-Induced Carcinogenesis: Cell Cycle Arrest, DNA Repair and Apoptosis [pdf, ]2.2mb Timothy Jorgensen
Emerging Concepts in Radiobiology [pdf, 3.0mb] William Morgan
Radiation Biodosimetry I: EPR/Teeth [pdf, 2.4mb] David Schauer
Studies of Atomic Bomb Survivors

Background and overview [pdf, 884kb]
Cancer incidence
Radiation and breast cancer [pdf, 293kb]
Non-cancer outcomes (somatic and genetic) [pdf, 241kb]


Kiyohiko Mabuchi
Elaine Ron
Charles Land
Kiyohiko Mabuchi

Studies of Medically Irradiated Populations

Cancer risk following therapeutic irradiation [pdf, 1.1mb]
Cancer risk from diagnostic x-rays [pdf, 2.4mb]
Diagnostic and therapeutic I-131


John D. Boice, Jr.
Roy Shore
Elaine Ron [pdf, 102kb]
Steven L. Simon [pdf, 1.2mb]

Radiation Biodosimetry II. FISH/Cytogenetics [pdf, 805kb] James Tucker
Environmental and Occupational Studies

Nuclear accidents [pdf, 3391kb]
Radon [pdf, 331kb]
Nuclear workers [pdf, 4.9mb]


Maureen Hatch / Andre Bouville
Jay Lubin
Ethel Gilbert

Risk Estimation and Description

Issues and approaches in the study of low-dose effects [pdf, 829kb]
Descriptive models; uncertainty [pdf, 121kb]
Probability of Causation [pdf, 95kb]


Charles Land

Ethel Gilbert
Charles Land

Experimental Radiation Carcinogenesis Michael Fry
The Biological Basis of Radiation Protection Standards [pdf, 314kb] Warren Sinclair
Natural Background Radiation [pdf, 1.2mb] John D. Boice, Jr.
Non-ionizing Radiation and Cancer

UVR/solar radiation
EMF (ELF and RF) [pdf, 954kb]


Margaret Tucker
Martha Linet

New Radiation Technologies, Associated Exposures and Estimated Risks [pdf, 1..8mb] Herman Suit
Risk Communication [pdf, 1.1mb] Jonathan Samet
Possible Exposures from Radiological Terrorism [pdf, 2.0mb] Steven L. Simon
Summary/Review [pdf, 408kb] Peter Inskip