A GROWING public awareness of the dangers of excessive exposure to irradiation has finally focused the attention of the medical profession on the serious early and late effects of such exposure ...

More comfort for seriously ill patients: MHH radiotherapy works with a rotating table ...

After many years of research and the development of domestic and international standards, more than 60 countries worldwide have regulations allowing the use of irradiation for one or more food ...

The Complex Irradiation Facility (CIF) is used for experimental research into the degradation of materials under simulated space radiation conditions as those found beyond that of low Earth orbits.

Heavy-ion irradiation, as a novel breeding method, has demonstrated high efficiency in creating diverse new mutants. Compared to other physical mutagenic sources, such as X-rays and γ-rays ...

This resource is a technical catalogue of Post Irradiation Facilities (hot cells) worldwide. The Post Irradiation Examination Facilities Database (PIE) includes a complete survey of the main ...

In medical applications that involve using radioactive sources, efforts are made to ensure that irradiation does not cause any long-term effects. This is done by considering: If the half-life ...