Prof.
Andrzej Wojcik
(Stockholm University)
16/10/2012, 10:00
Biological and Physical Dosimetry
oral (invited speaker)
In the event of a large scale radiological emergency biological dosimetry is an essential tool that can provide timely assessment of radiation exposure to the general population and enable the identification of those exposed people, who should receive immediate medical treatment. A number of biodosimetric tools are potentially available, but they must be adapted and tested for a large-scale...
Prof.
Marta Bucciolini
(University of Florence Italy)
16/10/2012, 11:00
Biological and Physical Dosimetry
oral (invited speaker)
Diamond dosimetry has become attractive in radiotherapy, in particular since the introduction of high conformal radiotherapy modalities. With the modern techniques, patients are treated with non-uniform fields, with high dose gradients, variation in space and time of the dose rate and of the beam energy spectrum; the charged particle equilibrium condition is seldom fulfilled, and the...
Dr
Helene BAYSSON
(IRSN)
16/10/2012, 11:30
Biological and Physical Dosimetry
oral (15 minutes)
Children with congenital heart disease frequently undergo interventional cardiology procedures for diagnosis or intervention purposes. The complexity of these procedures may result in high radiation exposures. Given the high radiosensitivity of children, and their longer life span to develop radiation-health effects, an epidemiological cohort study is being launched in France in order to...
Prof.
Viktor Meineke
(Bundeswehr Institute of Radiobiology affiliated to the University of Ulm)
16/10/2012, 11:45
Biological and Physical Dosimetry
oral (15 minutes)
A new project funded by the U.S.National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Radiation Nuclear Countermeasure program has been launched to link human data from radiation accidents to animal data resulting from controlled radiation studies in nonhuman primate (NHP) models. The aim of this project is to gain more insight into similarities and disparities concerning the pathophysiology...
Mrs
Karolina Krefft
(Department of Physics and Biophysics, Medical University of Gdansk, Debinki 1, 80-211 Gdansk, Poland)
16/10/2012, 12:00
Biological and Physical Dosimetry
oral (15 minutes)
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) dosimetry is based on ex vivo detection of radicals generated by ionizing radiation such tissues as tooth enamel and bone. This method was proved to be applicable in dosimetry of victims in radiation accidents. However, procedures regarding technical conditions of a reliable dosimetry in bone are still under study. The spectra of irradiated bones consist...
Prof.
Sarah Baatout
(SCK-CEN, Mol, Belgium)
16/10/2012, 12:15
Biological and Physical Dosimetry
oral (15 minutes)
One of the major hurdles for manned interplanetary space exploration is the increased cancer risk due to long-term exposure to cosmic radiation and solar particle events. However, besides cancer, also other adverse health effects may arise in astronauts as a result of exposure to cosmic radiation. In order to better understand and define the biological risks of cosmic radiation, it is...
