Practical Applications of Internal Dosimetry
Author: Wesley E. Bolch, editorISBN: 9781930524095 ISBN10: 1930524099
Published: 2002 | 480 pp. |
Price: $ 60.00
The Physicist | September/October 2002
"This book is about radionuclides which accidentally or otherwise were inhaled, ingested or entered the body via the skin. The emphasis is on medical procedures rather than the physics of activity measurements, though the latter is given its due. Serious students and practitioners of radiation protection will find the book required reading to update internal dosimetry and radiation protection procedures in particular when having to deal with long-lived actinides, commonly alpha emitters.
"The ten chapters of the book were written by experienced scientists from US Universities and National Laboratories who are long-standing contributors to the US Health Physics Society. The chapters are summaries of talks presented at the 2002 Summer School of the Society during June of this year. The introductory chapter explains the anatomical and physiological bases governing detection and treatment of inhaled or ingested radionuclides or absorbed via wounds or other injuries. Subsequent chapters deal in detail with internal dose assessment programs and procedures for the monitoring and control of internal exposure. Most chapters include tables of radionuclides obtained by fecal monitoring on workers who had been subject to repetitive measurements carried out within current regulatory and legal requirements.
"The last chapters deal with dose assessment in nuclear medicine and external beam radiation therapy, the latter being used to ensure that predetermined doses are homogeneously delivered while avoiding surrounding sensitive surfaces. For nuclear medicine, computer codes have been developed for patient specific dosimetry and treatment planning which, among others, can cope with 3D data as displayed in SPECT and PET images."