Ocular Radiation Risk Assessment in Populations Exposed to Environmental Radiation Contamination

1998
ISBN: 978-0-7923-5310-2
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 50, 225 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1160 g

Reihe: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 2

The global medical and scientific communities need to standardize methodologies and agree on minimum criteria to permit inter-study comparisons. This book develops such standards, presenting a series of recommendations that represent the first codification of the manner in which studies should be executed.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Junk, A. K.

Worgul, B. V.

Kundiev, Y.

Vitte, P.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Augenheilkunde, Optometrie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nuklearer Strahlenschutz, Nuklearenergie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Ukrainian/American Chernobyl Ocular Study.- Cataractous Changes Related To Radiation and Aging Among The Atomic Bomb Survivors in Hiroshima.- Quantification of Lens Opacities With Digital Scheimpflug Imaging.- A Control Group for Radiation Induced Lens Opacities Using an Electronic Scheimpflug System.- Posterior Subcapsular Cataract and Dry Eye Syndrome After Radiation Exposure By The Chernobyl Accident.- The Incidence of Eye Disorders Among Chernobyl Clean-up Workers.- Radiation Cataracts in High Dose Liquidators Who Developed Acute Radiation Syndrome.- Ophthalmo-pathology in Victims of The Chernobyl Catastrophy-results of Clinical Epidemiological Study.- Condition of Eye and Parameters of Free Radical Processes in Organism in The Liquidators After The Chernobyl Accident.- Physical and Chemical Changes in Murine Lens At Early Stage of Cataract Development Induced By Total Gamma-irradiation.- Overview on Existing Approaches To Dose Reconstruction - Recommendations For The Ukrainian American Chernobyl Ocular Study (uacos).- Physical and Radiobiological Considerations in Eye Dosimetry.- Dosimetry, Dose Reconstruction and Epidemiology:lessons From Radpath, Radtest and Related Studies.- Methodologies - Strengths and Weaknesses: A View On The Dosimetric Support For The Chernobyl Liquidator Eye Cataract Study.- Estimation of Environmental Burdens By Radiation: Radiological Units: From Gray To Sievert.- In Vitro Biocompatibility Testing of Intraocular Biomaterials.- X-ray Sensitivity and Dna Damage in Bovine Lens Epithelial Cells in Vitro.- Induction and Repair of Dna Strand Breaks in Bovine Lens Epithelial Cells After High Let Irradiation.- Laser Scanning Focal Length Variability Is A Measure of Damage in Rat Lens in Model Astronaut Cataracts Treated With Vitamin E (ve) Or R-?-Lipoic Acid (RLA).- Overview of The Epidemiology of Radiation Cataracts.- Prevalence of Lens Opacity in Population With Chronic Low-dose Gamma-radiation Exposure From Radioactive Apartments in Taiwan.- The Experiences of Surveys for an Epidemiological Database of Different Occupational Groups of Rural Workers in Ukraine.- 4. Final Recommendations Of The Nato Advanced Research Workshop On “ocular Radiation Risk Assessment In Populations Exposed To Environmental Radiation Contamination”, Kiev 1997.- Author’s Index.