Health Risk Assessment of Environment and Medical Radiation
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 201
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental and medical radiation protection; radiobiology; scientific misconduct and medical malpractice; radiotherapy plan optimization; computerized radiation protection; 5G measurements and evaluation; EMF and GIS (geographic information system); artificial intelligence in education and radiation therapy & imaging
Interests: environmental and medical radiation protection; radiobiology; radiotherapy plan optimization; 5G measurements and evaluation; artificial intelligence in education and radiation therapy & imaging; radiomics–imaging biomarkers; stereotactic radiotherapy
Interests: non-ionizing radiation protection in medicine; medical physics; health physics; bio-signals; electrophysiology; medical error; intelligent medical systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The purpose of radiation protection is to shield people and the environment from the harmful effects of exposure to ionizing and nonionizing radiation.
Ionizing radiation is extremely high in energy and can, therefore, cause significant damage to living tissue. Its main sources are radiotherapy, nuclear medicine, and radiology (by far the most significant manmade sources), tobacco (polonium-210), consumer products, and X-ray security systems. Nonionizing radiation is emitted in high-frequency electromagnetic fields (telecoms), extremely low-frequency electric and magnetic fields (power lines), and other settings.
Radiation also exists in our environment. Natural background radiation takes the form of cosmic radiation (sun and stars), terrestrial radiation (radioactive materials in soil and rock; radon gas contributes nearly two-thirds of our natural background radiation), and internal radiation (mainly from radioactive potassium-40 and carbon-14 inside our bodies).
This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the current state of knowledge on radiation protection in the environment and in hospitals. New research papers, reviews, case reports, and conference papers are welcome, including those dealing with new approaches to derive radiation protection standards or risk assessment and management, exposure assessment science, epidemiology, intervention studies, and risk and health impact assessment. We also welcome methodological papers, position papers, brief reports, and commentaries.
The following are some examples of topics that could be addressed in this Special Issue:
- Hospital use of radiation and the risk assessment of new technologies (PET scan, VMAT/IMRT techniques in radiotherapy, and LDCT vs. CT).
- Radioactive waste environmental contamination.
- Radiation protection for industrial workers.
- Pregnancy and medical and professional irradiation.
- RF and MW EMF human exposure (4G-5G-6G, medical sources, military, meteo, and other emitting sources).
- Radiation burden from IoT.
- Tobacco (polonium 210) radiation risk.
- Radiation risk from consumer products and X-ray security systems.
Papers combining a high academic standard coupled with a practical focus on providing optimal on-site solutions are invited for this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Constantin Kappas
Prof. Dr. Kyriaki Theodorou
Prof. Dr. Constantinos Koutsojannis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental radiation protection
- radiation protection in medicine
- radiobiology
- radiomics
- imaging biomarkers
- scientific misconduct and medical malpractice
- radiotherapy plan optimization
- 5G and 6G measurements and evaluation
- EMF and GIS (geographic information system)
- artificial intelligence in medicine
