Dosimetry Monograph

Radiation Dosimetry Monograph

REB and its collaborators have published a monograph entitled "Applications of Dosimetry in Radiation Epidemiology" published as a special supplement to Radiation Research in July 2006 (Volume 166, Number1). It presents a variety of radiation dosimetry methods that have been applied to epidemiological studies that have been conducted by, or in association with, REB investigators. The editors of the monograph received a NIH Group Merit Award in 2007 “for the first broad-based description of applications of radiation dosimetry to epidemiological studies, an invaluable international resource".

The monograph features dosimetry methods for studies of populations exposed to medical irradiation, reconstruction of doses from radioactive fallout from nuclear testing, dosimetry for studies of other environmental and occupational radiation exposures, radon measurements, A-bomb dosimetry, biodosimetry, and statistical methods to evaluate and account for uncertainty in dose estimates. All citations are included below.

Introduction

• Uses of Dosimetry in Radiation Epidemiology (pdf, 31kb)
  Steven L. Simon, Ruth A. Kleinerman, Elaine Ron and André Bouville

Medical Dosimetry

• Normal Organ Radiation Dosimetry and Associated Uncertainties in Nuclear Medicine, with Emphasis on Iodine-131 (pdf, 95kb)
  A. B. Brill, M. Stabin, A. Bouville and E. Ron
• Dose Reconstruction for Therapeutic and Diagnostic Radiation Exposures: Use in Epidemiological Studies (pdf, 607kb)
  Marilyn Stovall, Rita Weathers, Catherine Kasper, Susan A. Smith, Lois Travis, Elaine Ron and Ruth Kleinerman

Occupational Dosimetry

• The Chornobyl Accident: Estimation of Radiation Doses Received by the Baltic and Ukrainian Cleanup Workers (pdf, 101kb)
  André Bouville, Vadim V. Chumak, Peter D. Inskip, Viktor Kryuchkov and Nickolas Luckyanov
• External Dose Estimation for Nuclear Worker Studies (pdf, 39kb)
  E. S. Gilbert, I. Thierry-Chef, E. Cardis, J. J. Fix and M. Marshall
• Estimating Historical Radiation Doses to a Cohort of U.S. Radiologic Technologists (pdf, 373kb)
  Steven L. Simon, Robert M. Weinstock, Michele Morin Doody, James Neton, Thurman Wenzl, Patricia Stewart, Aparna K. Mohan, R. Craig Yoder, Michael Hauptmann, D. Michal Freedman, John Cardarelli, H. Amy Feng, André Bouville and Martha Linet
• Radon Exposure Assessment and Dosimetry Applied to Epidemiology and Risk Estimation (pdf, 273kb)
  Jerome S. Puskin, and Anthony C. James

Environmental Dosimetry

• Review of Methods of Dose Estimation for Epidemiological Studies of the Radiological Impact of Nevada Test Site and Global Fallout (pdf, 149kb)
  Harold L. Beck, Lynn R. Anspaugh, André Bouville and Steven L. Simon
• Dose Estimation for Atomic Bomb Survivor Studies: Its Evolution and Present Status (pdf, 2.4mb)
  Harry M. Cullings, Shoichiro Fujita, Sachiyo Funamoto, Eric J. Grant, George D. Kerr and Dale L. Preston
• Development of an Improved Dose Reconstruction System for the Techa River Population Affected by the Operation of the Mayak Production Association (pdf, 357kb)
  M. O. Degteva, M. I. Vorobiova, E. I. Tolstykh, N. B. Shagina, E. A. Shishkina, L. R. Anspaugh, B. A. Napier, N. G. Bougrov, V. A. Shved and E. E. Tokareva
• Questionnaire- and Measurement-Based Individual Thyroid Doses in Ukraine Resulting from the Chornobyl Nuclear Reactor Accident (pdf, 306kb)
  I. Likhtarev, A. Bouville, L. Kovgan, N. Luckyanov, P. Voillequé and M. Chepurny

Biological Dosimetry

• Retrospective Assessment of Radiation Exposure Using Biological Dosimetry: Chromosome Painting, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance and the Glycophorin A Mutation Assay (pdf, 351kb)
  R. A. Kleinerman, A. A. Romanyukha, D. A. Schauer and J. D. Tucker

Uncertainty in Dosimetry

• Some Statistical Implications of Dose Uncertainty in Radiation Dose-Response Analyses (pdf, 110kb)
  Daniel W. Schafer and Ethel S. Gilbert

Summary

• Dosimetry for Epidemiological Studies: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future (pdf, 46kb)
  Steven L. Simon, André Bouville, Ruth Kleinerman and Elaine Ron