Health Physics Society

The society was formed in 1956 as a scientific organization of professionals who specialize in radiation safety. Its mission is to support its manbers in the practice of their profession and to promote excellence in the science and practice of radiation safety. Today, its nearly 6000 manbers represent all scientific and technical areas related to radiation safety including acadenua, government. 

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Miller, C.W., Power sourees for irradiation processing the linear accelerator. In Charlesby, A. (Ed.), Radiation Sources. The MacMillan Company, New York, 1964, pp. 197-219. Sehonberg, R.G., Radiation considerations for operation of a portable 6-MeV Electron Linear Accelerator. Proceedings 20th Midyear Topical Symposium, Health Physics Society, Reno, NV, February 8-12, 1987, p. 297. 

Fig. 1. Deposition of inhaled particles of different sizes (mass median aerodynamic diameters) in the three regions of the respiratory tract. Each shaded area indicates the variability of deposition when the aerosol distribution parameter, o, (geometric standard deviation) was varied from 1.2 to 4.5. The assumed tidal volume was 1450 cm3. (Reproduced from Health Physics, vol. 12, pp. 173-207,1966 by permission of the Health Physics Society).

Cadwell, L.L., R.G. Schreckhise, and R.E. Fitzner. 1979. Cesium-137 in coots (Fulica americana) on Hanford waste ponds contribution to population dose and offsite transport estimates. Pages 485-491 in Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Proceedings of Health Physics Society. Twelfth Midyear Topical Symposium. February 11-15, 1979, Williamsburg, VA. 

Adjunct Professor of Radiation Science Georgetown University Chair Ad Hoc Committee on Homeland Security Health Physics Society... 

HPS, Radiation Risk in Perspective, Position Statement of the Health Physics Society, adopted January 1996. 

Health Physics Society. Online. Available HTTP (accessed 9 April 2003). 

Schreckhise, P. G., Cline, J. F., Abstract P/184, Twenty-Third Annual Health Physics Society Meeting, 1978. 

CAMERON, F.X. (1996). The odyssey of the good ship NORM The search for a regulatory safe harbor, pages 13 to 18 in NORM / NARM Regulation and Risk Assessment (Health Physics Society, McLean, Virginia). 

Photo 27.1 Ten days after exposure. Left hand of a patient who rubbed Cs powder on his palm. A diffuse secondary erythema is noted on the region promixal to fingers 2, 3, and 4. Delineation of bulla formation is barely visible. (Oliveira et al., 1991. Reproduced with permission of the Health Physics Society.)... 

Photo 27.7 The victim s toes on February 11,1992. (Schauer et al., 1992. Reproduced with permission of the Health Physics Society.)... 

Health Physics Society. Web site at www.hps.org International Atomic Energy Agency. Web site at www. iaea.org... 

Cookfair DL, Beck WL, Shy C, et al. 1983. Lung cancer among workers at a uranium processing plant. In Proceedings of the Health Physics Society 398-406. 

Hans J Jr., Burris E, Gorsuch T. 1979. Radioactive waste management at the former Shiprock Uranium Mill Site New-Mexico, USA. In 24th Annual meeting of the Health Physics Society. Health Phys 37 811. 

HPS. 1996. Health Physics Society Standard no. N13.30-1996. Performance Criteria for Radiobioassay published by the Health Physics Society in 1996. 

Waxweiler RJ, Archer VE, Roscoe RJ, et al. 1983. Mortality patterns among a retrospective cohort of uranium mill workers. Presented at Epidemiology Applied to Health Physics Proceedings of the Health Physics Society, 428-435. 

Health Physics Society Committee Report, Upgrading environmental radiation data, HPSR-1, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 1980. 

Clinicians seeking additional help with fetal dose estimation can locate their state Radiation Control/Radiation Protection Contact through the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, hic. (CRCPD) Web site at http //www.crcpd.org/map/map. asp (last accessed 1-29-06). hi addition, the Health Physics Society (HPS) Web site contains a hst of certified Health Physicists at http //www.hpsl.org/aahp/manbers/ members.htm (last accessed 1-29-06) who can help with fetal dose estimation. 

Papazoglou, LA. and Kolias, J.G. (1997). Establishing protective long measures after severe nuclear accidents using multiple criteria. Health Physics Society, 72 (5), pp. 676-692. 

American National Standards Institute/Health Physics Society (1999). Specifications for the bottle manikin absorption phantom. Health Physics Society, McLean, VA ANSI/HPS N13, p 35... 

Wong, K. M., Burke, J. C., and Bowen, V. T., "Proceedings, Fifth Annual Health Physics Society Midyear Topical Symposium Health Physics Aspects of Nuclear Facility Siting," Vol. 2, pp. 529-538, 1970. 

Raabe, Otto G. (1994). Proceedings of the Health Physics Society 1994 Summer School. Madison, WI Medical Physics Publishing. 

Estimation of the detection limit of the measurement instrument in the time period available for counting, linked with the required detectable concentration and the expected concentration of the radionuclide to be determined, guides selection of sample size for the analysis. Calculation of the minimum detectable activity is discussed in Section 10.4.2. Additional documents of interest are Altshuler and Pasternack (1963), Pasternack and Harley (1971), and Currie (1968). The terms minimum detectable concentration and lower limit of detection also have widespread use. A document that addresses these and other topics pertinent to radiation monitoring and measurement was developed by a committee of the Health Physics Society (EPA 1980a). 

Health Physics Society (HPS)—A professional scientific organization whose mission is to promote the practice of radiation safety. Online at http //www.hps.org/. 

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