BACKGROUND Evidence for an association between exposure during pregnancy to trihalomethanes (THMs) in drinking water and impaired fetal growth is still inconsistent and inconclusive, in particular, for various exposure routes. We examined the relationship of individual exposures to THMs in drinking water on low birth weight (LBW), small for gestational age (SGA), and birth weight (BW) in single...

Risk assessments of benzene have been based upon both human and animal studies. In this paper, metabolite information is used to construct an internal dose (a surrogate of the biologically effective dose) for a given administered dose. The relationship between the administered dose and this internal dose is nonlinear and is well described by a Michaelis-Menten function. The administered doses f...

background: recent pre-clinical and clinical studies indicate that irradiation in the dose range of 15 to 30 gy can reduce rate of restenosis in patients who have undergone an angioplasty. the use of filled balloon with radioactive solution was proposed as one of the possible intravascular irradiation techniques. materials and methods: the monte carlo n-particle transport code (mcnp4b) was used...

Background: Gel polymers are considered as new dosimeters for determining radiotherapy dose distribution in three dimensions.Objective: The ability of a new formulation of MAGIC-f polymer gel was assessed by experimental measurement and Monte Carlo (MC) method for studying the effect of gold nanoparticles (GNPs) in prostate dose distributions under the internal Ir-192 and external 18MV radiothe...

From 1990 to 1998, estimations of the effective dose from external and internal irradiation due to l 3 7 Cs and >,ACs were carried out for inhabitants in rural villages in theBryansk region, Russia, highly contaminated due to the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Yearly expeditions were conducted in autumn. The external effective dose was estimated from measurements with thermoluminescent (TL)dosemet...

wheat is a staple food in pakistan. production of wheat is increased with extensive use of phosphate based fertilizers in agricultural fields. activity mass concentration of primordial radionuclides due to use of phosphate fertilizers in soil enhances the external gamma dose and due to the consumption of wheat food grown on these soils also increases the internal dose. different types of soil, ...

BACKGROUND Internal mammary irradiation is still an issue of great debate. Although treatment of internal mammary lymph nodes was routinely given in the majority of randomized trials, data in its value are still limited. The aim of this study is to determine the variability of position of the internal mammary lymph nodes using lymphoscintigraphy and to compare the dose of radiation that reaches...