Radiological Health MD0180

✍ Scribed by US Army medical department

• Publisher: US Army medical department
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 80
• Series: US Army medical course
• Edition: 100
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

DEVELOPMENT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
LESSON 1
INTRODUCTION
PURPOSE
SCOPE
HISTORY
RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH AND THE PREVENTIVE MEDICINE SPECIALIST
BASIC RADIATION PHYSICS
STRUCTURE OF MATTER
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES
ATOMIC NOTATION
RADIOACTIVITY
RADIATION UNITS
BACKGROUND
UNIT OF EXPOSURE
ABSORBED DOSE
DOSE EQUIVALENT
DOSE RATE
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF RADIATION
BACKGROUND
DAMAGE MECHANISMS
ACUTE EFFECTS
DELAYED SOMATIC EFFECTS OF RADIATION
RADIATION DETECTION INSTRUMENTS
DETECTOR FUNDAMENTALS
SELECTION CRITERIA
INSTRUMENTS
EXERCISES
SOLUTIONS
LESSON 2
SOURCES OF IONIZING RADIATION
GENERAL
NATURAL BACKGROUND RADIATION
MAN-MADE RADIATION
MACHINE-PRODUCED RADIATION SOURCES
X-RAY TUBE
RADIATION PROTECTION PROGRAMS
EARLY RADIATION PROTECTION MEASURES
INTERNATIONAL ACTIONS
TOLERANCE DOSE
ADVENT OF ATOMIC ENERGY
MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE
RADIATION PROTECTION GUIDANCE
GENETIC EFFECTS OF RADIATION
JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY
FEDERAL RADIATION COUNCIL
FURTHER STUDIES
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON RADIATION PROTECTION AND MEASUREMENTS
DEPARTMENT OF ARMY RADIATION PROTECTION PROGRAM
EXERCISES
SOLUTIONS
LESSON 3
MICROWAVE RADIATION
GENERAL
MICROWAVE RANGE
MICROWAVE GENERATION
USES
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS
STANDARDS
EXPOSURE STANDARDS
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
ARMY PROGRAM
LASER RADIATION
GENERAL
LASER OPERATION AND USES
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS
CLASSES OF LASER
LASER PROTECTION
EXERCISES
SOLUTIONS
GLOSSARY
COMMENT SHEET