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Unplanned exposure to radiation can cause side effects on high-risk individuals; meanwhile, radiotherapies can also cause injury on normal cells and tissues surrounding the tumor. Besides the direct radiation damage, most of the ionizing radiation- (IR-) induced injuries were caused by generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs), which possess self-renew an...

Ionizing radiation is used in many industrial practices such as industrial radiography, nuclear gauges, petroleum well logging and industrial irradiators. These practices can result in radiation exposures whose intensity can be foreseen with some level of certainty. They are called normal exposures. Nevertheless, in routine practices other type of exposures can also occur. They are called poten...

ABSTRACT Normal-tissue adverse effects following radiotherapy are common and signifi cantly affect quality of life. These effects cannot be accounted for by dosimetric, treatment, or demographic factors alone, and evidence suggests that common genetic variants are associated with radiotherapy adverse effects. The fi eld of radiogenomics has evolved to identify such genetic risk factors. Radioge...

In this document, we will present the results of the long-term monitoring of the condition of the eyes of victims of the Chernobyl catastrophe. The patient examinations were conducted using our system of standard inspection and description of the condition of the eye. We have summarized the development of this system in another paper. Ocular effects in patients as a result of the Chernobyl acci...

Cows’ infrared radiation temperature study was carried out at experimental cowshed (120 cows) of Estonian University of Life Sciences. Thermal image scanner Fluke TiS was used for obtaining 640×480 pixels thermal images with resolution of 0.1°C. The temperature distribution pattern of different parts of cow’s body was estimated and analysed with SmartView software. Special attention was paid to...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We have investigated the treatment results of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) to patients with radiation-induced tissue complications. MATERIAL AND METHODS Eight patients (1.4%) from 548 with head and neck cancers treated surgically with post- or preoperative radiotherapy or radiotherapy alone in standard doses who developed postradiation complications (6 patients with larynge...

OBJECTIVES To compare the proportion of patients exposed to a radiation dose in excess of 20 mSv, and to document missed injuries before and after the introduction of a panscan protocol for blunt trauma. METHODS Data were collected retrospectively from our trauma database for 6 months before and after implementation of the protocol. All radiological studies performed during the initial patien...