Biomedical Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
14.11
Suggested Reading
The World Wide Web is an invaluable source of information on the subjects of
this chapter. The reader is referred to the entire comprehensive reports published
by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements and the In-
ternational Commission on Radiological Protection. The documents cover a wide
variety of specialized topics dealing with radiation and the practice of radiation
protection from all manner of sources. Other organizations that provide publi-
cations concerned with radiation protection include the following: American Na-
tional Standards Institute (ANSI), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Inter-
national Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), International Commission on Radiation
Units and Measurements (ICRU), International Labor Organization (ILO), Na-
tional Academy of Sciences—National Research Council (NAS-NRC), Society of
Nuclear Medicine—Medical Internal Radiation Dose (MIRD) Committee, United
Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and
the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). In the United States, specific legal
radiation-exposure regulations are published in the Federal Register under Title 10,
Part 20 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
Several of the works cited in Section 1.6 describe the history of the principal
organizations and the development of the radiation-protection concepts, practices,
and limits that we have today.
Other Suggested Reading
1
Clark, R. and Valentin, J., “A History
of the International Commission on
Radiological Protection,”
Health Phys.
88
, 717-732 (2005).
2
Health Physics Society, “Radiation
Risk in Perspective,” Position State-
ment of the Health Physics Society,
McLean, VA (Revision Aug. 2004).
3
ICRP Publication 60,
1990 Recommen-
dations of the International Commission
on Radiological Protection
, Annals of
the ICRP, Vol. 21/1-3 (1991).
4
ICRU Report 51,
Quantities and Units
in Radiation Protection
, International
Commission on Radiation Units and
Measurements, Bethesda, MD (1993).
[Also see earlier ICRU Reports cited
in this reference.]
5
ICRU Report 66,
Determination of Op-
erational Dose Equivalent Quantities for
Neutrons
, J. ICRU, Vol. 1, No. 3 (2001).
6
Jones, C. G., “A Review of the His-
tory of U.S. Radiation Protection
Regulations, Recommendations, and
Standards,”
Health Phys.
88
, 697-716
(2005).
7
Leggett, R. W. and Eckerman, K. F.,
Dosimetric Significance of the ICRP's
Updated Guidance and Models, 1989-
2003, and Implications for U.S. Federal
Guidance
, ORNL/TM-2003/207, Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge,
TN (2003).
8
NCRP, Proceedings 39th Annual
Meeting, April 9-10, 2004. “Radia-
tion Protection at the Beginning of
the 21st Century—A Look Forward,”
Health Phys.
, 249-318 (2004).
9
NCRP Report No. 91,
Recommenda-
tions on Limits for Exposure to Ionizing
Radiation
, National Council on Radi-
ation Protection and Measurements,
Bethesda, MD (1987).
10
NCRP Report No. 115,
Risk Estimates
for Radiation Protection
,National
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