By Mary Alice Statkiewicz Sherer, AS, RT(R), FASRT, Radiography Instructor, High-Tech Institute, Nashville, TN; Paula J. Visconti, PhD, DABR, Director of Medical Physics, Radiation Safety Officer, Memorial Hospital of Burlington County, Mount Holly, NJ; E. Russell Ritenour, PhD, DABR, FAAPM, FACR, Professor and Director of Physics Section, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN and Kelli Welch Haynes, RT(R)


TOC Long (tentative)

1. Introduction to Radiation Protection
2. Interaction of X-Radiation with Matter
3. Radiation Quantities and Units
4. Radiation Monitoring
5. Overview of Cell Biology
6. Molecular and Cellular Radiation Biology
7. Early Radiation Effects on Organ Systems
8. Late Radiation Effects on Organ Systems
9. Dose Limits for Exposure to Ionizing Radiation
10. Management of Patient Radiation Dose during Diagnostic X-Ray Procedures
11. Management of Imaging Personnel Radiation Dose during Diagnostic X-Ray Procedures
12. Radioisotopes and Radiation Protection

Appendices

1. Relationships between Systems of Units
2. Standard Designations for Metric System Lengths, Electron Volt Energy Levels, and Frequency Spectrum Ranges
3. Periodic Table of Elements
4. Chance of a 50-KeV Photon Interacting with Atoms of Tissue as it Travels through 5 cm of Soft Tissue
5. Relationship among Protons, Electromagnetic Waves, Wavelengths and Energy
6. Compton Interaction
7. Electron Shell Structure
8. Revision of 10 CFR Part 35
9. Consumer-Patient Radiation Health and Safety Act of 1981