Consistencies and Discrepancies: Current Perspectives on Low Dose Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation

Nussbaum, Rudi H.; Köhnlein, W.

doi:10.1080/1047322x.1996.10389337

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“…X-ray dose should be limited in vivo because high local doses >100 mGy can cause acute symptoms such as radiation burns, radiation sickness, and hair loss, 16–17 while effective whole-body doses are associated with increased cancer risks. The local absorbed dose is reported in Gray (Gy)= 1 J/kg, while the effective whole body dose, reported in Seivert (Sv), is the average dose over the whole body weighted by mass, radiation type, and tissue type.…”

Section: X-ray Imaging Based On X-ray Attenuationmentioning

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Advances in functional X-ray imaging techniques and contrast agents

Chen

Rogalski

Anker

2012

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

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X-rays have been used for non-invasive high-resolution imaging of thick biological specimens since their discovery in 1895. They are widely used for structural imaging of bone, metal implants, and cavities in soft tissue. Recently, a number of new contrast methodologies have emerged which are expanding X-ray’s biomedical applications to functional as well as structural imaging. These techniques are promising to dramatically improve our ability to study in situ biochemistry and disease pathology. In this review, we discuss how X-ray absorption, X-ray fluorescence, and X-ray excited optical luminescence can be used for physiological, elemental, and molecular imaging of vasculature, tumours, pharmaceutical distribution, and the surface of implants. Imaging of endogenous elements, exogenous labels, and analytes detected with optical indicators will be discussed.

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Section: X-ray Imaging Based On X-ray Attenuationmentioning

confidence: 99%