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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"ALARA Principle"”.
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Radiation and litigation : analyses of the ALARA principle and low dose radiation in the courts, and the future of radiation in court cases
… radiation doses in the work place is the ALARA principle which stands for "as low as reasonably achievable". Within the phrase, "reasonably achievable" there is an implied element of subjectivity. Because "reasonably achievable" can vary in meaning for different people, this paper will …
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Co-production of Science and Regulation: Radiation Health and the Linear No-Threshold Model
… associated regulatory system. History shows the principle of using the least amount of radiation exposure needed to achieve the desired effect became established as a social convention to help avoid inadvertent harm long before there was a linear no-threshold dose-response model. Because of the …
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Spatial Coherence-Based Adaptive Acoustic Output Selection for Diagnostic Ultrasound
… societies advise users to observe the ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) principle with regard to acoustic exposure, but several studies have shown that the majority of ultrasound users do not monitor safety indices. To address this discrepancy, an adaptive ultrasound method has …
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Ein effektiver und verlässlicher Ansatz zur Reduktion der Strahlenexposition des medizinischen Personals im Kontext der Radiojodtherapie
Die Validierung der Aktivität der Jod-131-Kapseln vor der Radiojodtherapie ist gesetzlich vorgeschrieben. Die Anwendung des dargestellten alternativen Messverfahrens führt zu einer erheblichen Reduktion der Strahlenbelastung des medizinischen Personals und insbesondere der Hände. Es ermöglicht eine …