The evaluation of radiation dose in positron emission tomography (PET) is an essential component of modern nuclear medicine. Accurate dosimetric assessment ensures that the diagnostic benefits of PET ...

Engineers from Washington University in Saint Louis are developing a novel imaging technique for evaluating the use of alpha-particle emitting radiopharmaceutical therapy in tumors and other radiation ...

This blurring of traditional boundaries between nuclear medicine and radiation oncology creates both opportunities and ...

An illustration titled 'What Radioactivity Is', with six panels' reading (top) 'Water in pond is 'stable,' it expends no energy,' water can be carried up-hill and its energy level raised,' 'as it runs ...

(Reuters) - Health experts urged governments in the Asia Pacific to monitor radioactivity levels after Japan's quake-damaged nuclear power plant exploded and sent radiation into the air. Radiation is ...

X-ray imaging of semiconductor and electronic devices is an invaluable tool; enabling non-invasive sub-surface inspection, identification of defects and measurement of critical dimensions. Figure 1 ...

In 2019, the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), whose mandate is to undertake scientific ...

The typical National Dose Registry (NDR) contains the dose records of individuals who are monitored for occupational exposures to ionizing radiation. Cosmic Radiation is high-energy radiation ...