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particle radiation consisting of particles of non-zero rest energy, such as alpha radiation (α), beta radiation (β), proton radiation and neutron radiation acoustic...

Ionizing radiation, also spelled ionising radiation, consists of subatomic particles or electromagnetic waves that have enough energy per individual photon...

Acute radiation syndrome (ARS), also known as radiation sickness or radiation poisoning, is a collection of health effects that are caused by being exposed...

Hawking radiation is radiation released outside a black hole's event horizon due to quantum effects according to a model developed by Stephen Hawking in...

Radiation therapy or radiotherapy (RT, RTx, or XRT) is a treatment using ionizing radiation, generally provided as part of cancer therapy to either kill...

In physics, electromagnetic radiation (EMR) or an electromagnetic wave (EMW) is a self-propagating wave of the electromagnetic field that carries momentum...

Cherenkov radiation (/tʃərɛŋˈkɒf/) is an electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron) passes through a dielectric medium...

Black-body radiation is the thermal electromagnetic radiation emitted from a body in thermodynamic equilibrium with its environment. A black body is an...

Ultraviolet radiation (UV; sometimes called ultraviolet light) is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 100–400 nanometers, shorter than that of...

Transition radiation (TR) is a form of electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle passes through inhomogeneous media, such as a boundary...

Thermal radiation is electromagnetic radiation emitted by the thermal motion of particles in matter. All matter with a temperature greater than absolute...

In physics, Planck's law (also Planck radiation law) describes the spectral density of electromagnetic radiation emitted by a black body in thermal equilibrium...

Infrared (IR; sometimes called infrared light) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than that of visible light but shorter than...

A gamma ray, also known as gamma radiation (symbol γ), is a penetrating form of electromagnetic radiation arising from high-energy interactions like the...

The Askaryan radiation also known as Askaryan effect is the phenomenon whereby a particle traveling faster than the phase velocity of light in a dense...

Terahertz radiation – also known as terahertz waves, tremendously high frequency (THF), T-rays, T-waves, T-light, or T-lux– consists of electromagnetic...

Look up radiation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Radiation is a process in which a body emits energy that propagates through a medium or through...

The Van Allen radiation belt is a zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from solar wind, that are captured and held around a planet...

The electromagnetic spectrum is the full range of electromagnetic radiation, organized by frequency or wavelength. The spectrum is divided into separate...

An X-ray is a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than those of ultraviolet rays and longer than those of gamma rays...

disintegration) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation. A material containing unstable nuclei is considered radioactive. Three...

Radiation effects may refer to: Radiation damage on physical objects due to ionizing radiation Radiation exposure, a measure of the ionization of air due...

An evolutionary radiation is an increase in taxonomic diversity that is caused by elevated rates of speciation, that may or may not be associated with...

of electromagnetic radiation. The word laser originated as an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. The first laser was...

A radiation burn is a damage to the skin or other biological tissue and organs as an effect of radiation. The radiation types of greatest concern are...

In particle physics, the radiation length is a characteristic of a material, related to the energy loss of high energy particles electromagnetically interacting...

Radiation damping in accelerator physics is a phenomenon where betatron oscillations and longitudinal oscillations of the particle are damped due to energy...

The history of radiation protection begins at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries with the realization that ionizing radiation from natural and artificial...

Background radiation is a measure of the level of ionizing radiation present in the environment at a particular location which is not due to deliberate...

A nuclear and radiation accident is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as "an event that has led to significant consequences to...

Radiation protection, also known as radiological protection, is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as "The protection of people...

Radiation hormesis is the hypothesis that low doses of ionizing radiation (within the region of and just above natural background levels) are beneficial...

Radiation fibrosis syndrome (also known as radiation fibrosis or radiation-induced fibrosis) is a human illness. It occurs as a result of cell death, and...

Look up radiation sickness in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Radiation sickness may refer to: Radiation Sickness (video), a video by the thrash metal...

Unintentional Radiation intelligence, or RINT, is military intelligence gathered and produced from unintentional radiation created as induction from electrical...

Radiation pressure (also known as light pressure) is mechanical pressure exerted upon a surface due to the exchange of momentum between the object and...

malfunction caused by high levels of ionizing radiation (particle radiation and high-energy electromagnetic radiation), especially for environments in outer...

Synchrotron radiation (also known as magnetobremsstrahlung) is the electromagnetic radiation emitted when relativistic charged particles are subject to...

Neutron radiation is a form of ionizing radiation that presents as free neutrons. Typical phenomena are nuclear fission or nuclear fusion causing the...

Radiation exposure is a measure of the ionization of air due to ionizing radiation from photons. It is defined as the electric charge freed by such radiation...

factors are believed to play a role. Risk factors include smoking, ionizing radiation, petrochemicals (such as benzene), prior chemotherapy, and Down syndrome...

In climate science, longwave radiation (LWR) is electromagnetic thermal radiation emitted by Earth's surface, atmosphere, and clouds. It is also referred...

In evolutionary biology, adaptive radiation is a process in which organisms diversify rapidly from an ancestral species into a multitude of new forms...

Radiological protection instruments can be used to detect and measure ionizing radiation: Ionization chambers Gaseous ionization detectors Geiger counters Photodetectors...

Terrestrial radiation may refer to: Terrestrial radiation, electromagnetic thermal radiation emitted by Earth's surface Terrestrial background radiation, environmental...

Diffuse sky radiation, is solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface after having been scattered from the direct solar beam by molecules or particulates...

A beta particle, also called beta ray or beta radiation (symbol β), is a high-energy, high-speed electron or positron emitted by the radioactive decay...

Radiation Measurement may refer to: Ionizing radiation#Measurement Radiometry, a set of techniques for measuring electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength...

Look up radiation poisoning in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Radiation poisoning may refer to: Acute radiation syndrome, the short-term systemic health...

For an optical fiber or waveguide, a radiation mode or unbound mode is a mode which is not confined by the fiber core. Such a mode has fields that are...

ʃtʁaːlʊŋ] ; from German bremsen 'to brake' and Strahlung 'radiation') is electromagnetic radiation produced by the deceleration of a charged particle when...

Electromagnetic radiation can be classified into two types: ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation, based on the capability of a single photon...

Nyonoksa Nyonoksa radiation accident (Russia) The Nyonoksa radiation accident, Arkhangelsk explosion or Nyonoksa explosion (Russian: Инцидент в Нёноксе...

Earth and draws significant scientific interest for the high levels of radiation exposure in the environment, as well as increasing interest from disaster...

Light, visible light, or visible radiation is electromagnetic radiation that can be perceived by the human eye. Visible light spans the visible spectrum...

An antenna radiation pattern (or antenna pattern or far-field pattern) is the directional (angular) dependence of the field strength (sometimes also the...

An anti-radiation missile (ARM) is a missile designed to detect and home in on an enemy radio emission source. Typically, these are designed for use against...

causes mostly unrelated to radiation exposure. It is the only instance in commercial nuclear power history where radiation-related fatalities occurred...

Exposure to ionizing radiation is known to increase the future incidence of cancer, particularly leukemia. The mechanism by which this occurs is well...

was a sphere of plutonium–gallium alloy that was involved in two fatal radiation accidents when scientists tested it as a fissile core of an early atomic...

A radiation therapist, therapeutic radiographer or radiotherapist is an allied health professional who works in the field of radiation oncology. Radiation...

exercise. Other factors include certain infections, exposure to ionizing radiation, and environmental pollutants. Infection with specific viruses, bacteria...

Radiation constant may refer to: The first and second radiation constants c1 and c2 – see Planck's Law The radiation density constant a – see Stefan–Boltzmann...

electromagnetic radiation, cosmic rays, neutrinos, magnetic fields and dust. The baseline temperature of outer space, as set by the background radiation from the...

Radiation retinopathy is damage to retina due to exposure to ionizing radiation. Radiation retinopathy has a delayed onset, typically after months or years...

science, radiation-absorbent material (RAM) is a material which has been specially designed and shaped to absorb incident radio frequency (RF) radiation (also...

James "Roddy" Byers (born 5 May 1955), known professionally as Roddy Radiation, is an English musician who played lead guitar for the Specials, as well...

Particle radiation is the radiation of energy by means of fast-moving subatomic particles. Particle radiation is referred to as a particle beam if the...

Auroral kilometric radiation (AKR) is the intense radio radiation emitted in the acceleration zone (at a height of three times the radius of the Earth)...

Non-ionizing (or non-ionising) radiation refers to any type of electromagnetic radiation that does not carry enough energy per quantum (photon energy)...

The Mesozoic–Cenozoic Radiation is the third major extended increase of biodiversity in the Phanerozoic, after the Cambrian Explosion and the Great Ordovician...

A radiation accident occurred in Samut Prakan Province, Thailand in January–February 2000. The accident happened when an insecurely stored unlicensed...

Radiation damage is the effect of ionizing radiation on physical objects including non-living structural materials. It can be either detrimental or beneficial...

as a type of enhanced radiation weapon (ERW), is a low-yield thermonuclear weapon designed to maximize lethal neutron radiation in the immediate vicinity...

Radiation monitoring involves the measurement of radiation dose or radionuclide contamination for reasons related to the assessment or control of exposure...

Radiation Measurements is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on nuclear science and radiation physics. It was established in...

of Atomic Radiation, "no adverse health effects among Fukushima residents have been documented that are directly attributable to radiation exposure from...

for the first time of the gruesome effects of radiation and nuclear fallout—radiation burns and radiation poisoning, sometimes lasting more than thirty...

waves transport energy as gravitational radiation, a form of radiant energy similar to electromagnetic radiation. Newton's law of universal gravitation...

neuroanatomy, the optic radiation (also known as the geniculocalcarine tract, the geniculostriate pathway, and posterior thalamic radiation) are axons from the...

missions to Mars, however, have the potential to expose astronauts to radiation in excess of 1000 mSv. Without the protection provided by Earth's magnetic...

Radiation is the tenth studio album by the British neo-prog band Marillion, released in 1998. Recorded at The Racket Club between November 1997 and June...

the unit of ionizing radiation dose in the International System of Units (SI), defined as the absorption of one joule of radiation energy per kilogram...

The rad is a unit of absorbed radiation dose, defined as 1 rad = 0.01 Gy = 0.01 J/kg. It was originally defined in CGS units in 1953 as the dose causing...

stages of the Big Bang, most of the energy was in the form of radiation, and that radiation was the dominant influence on the expansion of the universe...

weapons is believed to be the Teller–Ulam configuration. This relies on radiation implosion, in which X-rays from detonation of the primary stage, a fission...

October 11, 1991 (age 34) Manchester, New Hampshire, US Other names Radiation FwugRadiation Education Northeastern University (BS) Occupations Video game developer...

Annihilation radiation is a term used in gamma spectroscopy for the photon radiation produced when a particle and its antiparticle collide and annihilate...

In antenna theory, radiation efficiency is a measure of how well a radio antenna converts the radio-frequency power accepted at its terminals into radiated...

Microwave is a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths shorter than other radio waves but longer than infrared waves. Its wavelength ranges...

Acoustic radiations (also called auditory radiations) are thalamocortical white-matter fiber bundles that convey auditory information from the medial...

Radiation sensitivity is the susceptibility of a material to physical or chemical changes induced by radiation. Examples of radiation sensitive materials...

Radiation Island is an action-adventure and survival game by California-based developer Atypical Games. It was initially released on iOS and MacOS on...

Shortwave radiation (SW) is thermal radiation in the optical spectrum, including visible (VIS), near-ultraviolet (UV), and near-infrared (NIR) spectra...

Radiation implosion is the compression of a target by the use of high levels of electromagnetic radiation. The major use for this technology is in fusion...

who perform medical imaging and radiation therapy. Medical imaging is used for the diagnosis of pathology, while radiation therapy is used for treatment...

Medical Radiation Scientists (MRS) (also referred to as Radiologic Technologists) are healthcare professionals who perform complex diagnostic imaging...

event infographics. The international radiation symbol is a trefoil around a small central circle representing radiation from an atom. It was designed by mechanical...

In the United States, a Radiation Safety Officer is a person within an organization responsible for the safe use of radiation and radioactive materials...

Extreme ultraviolet radiation (EUV or XUV) or high-energy ultraviolet radiation is electromagnetic radiation in the part of the electromagnetic spectrum...

Radiation resistance is that part of an antenna's feedpoint electrical resistance caused by the emission of radio waves from the antenna. A radio transmitter...

discovery of ionizing radiation, a number of human radiation experiments have been performed to understand the effects of ionizing radiation and radioactive...

disorders, such as neurofibromatosis and Li–Fraumeni syndrome, and previous radiation therapy. Glioblastomas represent 15% of all brain tumors. They are thought...

In fluid dynamics, the radiation stress is the depth-integrated – and thereafter phase-averaged – excess momentum flux caused by the presence of the surface...

that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation, regardless of frequency or angle of incidence. The radiation emitted by a black body in thermal equilibrium...

Chronic radiation syndrome (CRS), or chronic radiation enteritis, is a constellation of health effects of radiation that occur after months or years of...

Radiation-induced lumbar plexopathy (RILP) or radiation-induced lumbosacral plexopathy (RILSP) is nerve damage in the pelvis and lower spine area caused...

The cosmic microwave background (CMB, CMBR), or relic radiation, is microwave radiation that fills all space in the observable universe. With a standard...

Ionising Radiations Regulations (IRR) are statutory instruments which form the main legal requirements for the use and control of ionising radiation in the...

other ionizing radiation as a part of radiation therapy. Radiation proctopathy may occur as acute inflammation called "acute radiation proctitis" (and...

In physics, monochromatic radiation is radiation with a single constant frequency or wavelength. For electromagnetic radiation, when that frequency is part...

Rayleigh radiation pressure and Langevin radiation pressure. Radiation pressure Acoustic levitation Acoustic radiation force RT Beyer (1978). "Radiation pressure—the...

of radiation on living tissue (including ionizing and non-ionizing radiation), in particular the health effects of radiation. Ionizing radiation is generally...

Radiation colitis is injury to the colon caused by radiation therapy. It is usually associated with treatment for prostate cancer or cervical cancer. Common...

Multipole radiation is a theoretical framework for the description of electromagnetic or gravitational radiation from time-dependent distributions of distant...

Radiation materials science is a subfield of materials science which studies the interaction of radiation with matter: a broad subject covering many forms...

Radiation trapping, imprisonment of resonance radiation, radiative transfer of spectral lines, line transfer or radiation diffusion is a phenomenon in...

much as 10 times the radiation of the Elephant's Foot. Decay of its radioactive components has also significantly reduced the radiation. The Elephant's Foot...

"Radiation Vibe" is the debut single by Fountains of Wayne, from their debut studio album Fountains of Wayne. It was released on October 11, 1996, on...

Radiation-induced cognitive decline describes the possible correlation between radiation therapy and cognitive impairment. Radiation therapy is used mainly...

In physics, absorption of electromagnetic radiation is how matter (typically electrons bound in atoms) takes up a photon's energy—and so transforms electromagnetic...

Radiation lobectomy is a form of radiation therapy used in interventional radiology to treat liver cancer. It is performed in patients that would be surgical...

shower radiation Radiation absorption Radiation acne Radiation angle radiant barrier (radiation belt: see) Van Allen radiation belt Radiation belt electron...

Radiation City was an American indie rock band that began in Portland, Oregon, in 2010. The band consisted of Cameron Spies (guitar, vocals), Elisabeth...

Radiation reduced hybrid is procedure in discovering the location of genetic markers relative to one another. The relative location of these markers can...

The Cambrian explosion (also known as the Cambrian radiation or Cambrian diversification) is an interval of time beginning approximately 538.8 million...

"Radioactive Boy Scout" and the "Nuclear Boy Scout", was an American nuclear radiation enthusiast who attempted to build a homemade nuclear reactor at the age...

and genetic effects, of low levels of ionizing radiation. It takes into account the type of radiation and the nature of each organ or tissue being irradiated...

Radiation Portal Monitors (RPMs) are passive radiation detection devices used for the screening of individuals, vehicles, cargo or other vectors for detection...

In particle physics, cyclotron radiation is electromagnetic radiation emitted by non-relativistic accelerating charged particles deflected by a magnetic...

Sunlight is the portion of the electromagnetic radiation which is emitted by the Sun (i.e. solar radiation) and received by the Earth, in particular the...

Dark radiation (also dark electromagnetism) is a postulated type of radiation that mediates interactions of dark matter. By analogy to the way photons...

Radiation Research, the official journal of the Radiation Research Society, is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research into the areas...

Radiation dosimetry in the fields of health physics and radiation protection is the measurement, calculation and assessment of the ionizing radiation...

inhabitants of the islands were evacuated three days later and suffered radiation sickness. Twenty-three crew members of the Japanese fishing vessel Daigo...

A radiation dosimeter is a device that measures the dose uptake of external ionizing radiation. It is worn by the person being monitored when used as a...

weapons (including infections with deadly or debilitating diseases), human radiation experiments, injections of toxic and radioactive chemicals, surgical experiments...

(Redirected from "Pelvic Radiation Disease") Radiation enteropathy is a syndrome that may develop following abdominal or pelvic radiation therapy for cancer...

The Cincinnati Radiation Experiments were a series of total and partial body irradiation tests performed on at least 90 patients with advanced cancer...

The Radiation Research Society (RRS) is a US-based international professional association for scientists working to investigate the radiation effects...

in 1990, and died in 1995 at the age of 64, most likely attributed to radiation exposure. Dyatlov was born in 1931 in Atamanovo, a village in the Sukhobuzimsky...

deposited by ionizing radiation in living matter. Absorbed dose is used in the calculation of dose uptake in living tissue in both radiation protection (reduction...

In heat transfer, Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation refers to wavelength-specific radiative emission and absorption by a material body in thermodynamic...

total energy thermal radiation: 35% of total energy ionizing radiation: 5% of total energy (more in a neutron bomb) residual radiation: 5–10% of total energy...

mass via Hawking radiation. The presence of a black hole can be inferred through its interaction with matter and electromagnetic radiation such as visible...

Love and Radiation is the fourth studio album from Christian rock band All Star United. It was released in 2006 after a four-year hiatus from the studio...

Isotropic radiation is radiation that has the same intensity regardless of the direction of measurement, such as what would be found in a thermal cavity...

rain of radioactive material from a typical fission bomb, a dirty bomb's radiation can be dispersed only within a few hundred meters or a few miles of the...

All About Radiation is a pseudoscientific book by L. Ron Hubbard in 1957 on the subject of radiation and atomic bombs, radiation's effects on the human...

In radiotherapy, radiation treatment planning (RTP) is the process in which a team consisting of radiation oncologists, radiation therapist, medical physicists...

control may occur. Risk factors include exposure to ionizing radiation such as during radiation therapy, a family history of the condition, and neurofibromatosis...

Cosmic background radiation is electromagnetic radiation that fills all space. The origin of this radiation depends on the region of the spectrum that...

as the science of radiation protection, is the profession devoted to protecting people and their environment from potential radiation hazards, while making...

A radiation oncologist is a specialist physician who uses ionizing radiation (such as megavoltage X-rays or radionuclides) in the treatment of cancer....

The Enterprise Radiation Forest is a forest in Oneida County, Wisconsin, United States, near the town of Enterprise. It was the subject of a study on...

Intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) is radiation therapy that is administered during surgery directly in the operating room (hence intraoperative)...

form over a water surface. Radiation fog forms mostly at night but often formation often begins in the late afternoon. Radiation fog is thickest shortly...

Applied Radiation and Isotopes is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier. It was established in 1993 and its scope covers applications...

Background radiation equivalent time (BRET) or background equivalent radiation time (BERT) is a unit of measurement of ionizing radiation dosage amounting...

on to build a series of ever larger and more expensive cyclotrons. His Radiation Laboratory became an official department of the University of California...

Optical radiation is the part of the electromagnetic spectrum with wavelengths between 100 nm and 1 mm. This range includes visible light, infrared light...

Radiation House (Japanese: ラジエーションハウス, Hepburn: Rajiēshon Hausu) is a Japanese manga series written by Tomohiro Yokomaku and illustrated by Taishi Mori...

electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation in this range of wavelengths is called visible light (or simply light)...

longwave radiation (OLR). Longwave radiation is electromagnetic thermal radiation emitted by Earth's surface and atmosphere. Longwave radiation is in the...

hyperfine levels of the hydrogen 1 s ground state. The electromagnetic radiation producing this line has a frequency of 1420.405751768(2) MHz (1.42 GHz)...

Lilienfeld radiation, named after Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, is electromagnetic radiation produced when electrons hit a metal surface. The Smith–Purcell...

equivalent dose (BED) is an informal unit of measurement of ionizing radiation exposure, intended as a general educational example to compare a dose...

Between March and July 1962, a radiation incident in Mexico City occurred when a ten-year-old boy took home an industrial radiography source that was...

scattering is a wide range of physical processes where moving particles or radiation of some form, such as light or sound, are forced to deflect from a straight...

of radiation scattering off an object. Non-radiative near-field behaviors dominate close to the antenna or scatterer, while electromagnetic radiation far-field...

emits ionizing radiation, typically one or more of the radiation types gamma rays, alpha particles, beta particles, and neutron radiation. Sources can be...

Genomic adjusted radiation dose (GARD) is a framework in radiation oncology that estimates the biological effect of a given physical radiation dose by combining...

Radiation dose reconstruction refers to the process of estimating radiation doses that were received by individuals or populations in the past as a result...

radiation therapy (SRT), also called stereotactic external-beam radiation therapy and stereotaxic radiation therapy, is a type of external radiation therapy...

be caused by CT scan radiation. Uncommon risk factors include exposure to vinyl chloride, Epstein–Barr virus, ionizing radiation, and inherited syndromes...

electromagnetic radiation (light) not ascribable directly to incandescence. Incandescence emerges at high temperatures due to thermal radiation; in contrast...

term is an acronym for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Nikolay Basov, Alexander Prokhorov and Joseph Weber introduced the concept...

product of how well it converts energy to electromagnetic radiation, and how well the emitted radiation is detected by the human eye. Luminous efficacy can...

transition radiation detector (TRD) is a particle detector using the Lorentz factor ( γ {\displaystyle \gamma } )-dependent threshold of transition radiation in...

The AGM-88 HARM (High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile) is a tactical, air-to-surface anti-radiation missile designed to home in on electronic transmissions...

agent that makes tumor cells more sensitive to radiation therapy. It is sometimes also known as a radiation sensitizer or radio-enhancer. Conventional chemotherapeutics...

The Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) is an instrument mounted on the Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity rover. It was the first of ten instruments...

“radiation” and “phobia”, refers to fear of ionizing radiation exceeding the actuarial risk, leading to overestimating the health risks of radiation compared...

Surface-guided radiation therapy (SGRT) (sometimes referred to as Surface-image Guided Radiation Therapy) is a process which uses 3D imaging to position...

Radiation chemistry is a subdivision of nuclear chemistry which studies the chemical effects of ionizing radiation on matter. This is quite different from...

the presence of nuclear radiation. Philosophers Françoise Bastide and Paolo Fabbri originated the idea of a "living radiation detector" in 1984 as a proposed...

The Radiation Belt and Magnetosphere is a book written by Wilmot Hess in 1968. The intention of the book is to amalgamate and sift through some 2500 articles...

the energy that was responsible for it was converted into particles and radiation, heating up the universe into a very hot and dense state, initiating the...

higher radiation dose to targeted tissues while significantly decreasing radiation to nearby organs at risk. The American Society for Radiation Oncology...

illnesses. Unlike radiotherapy, which is the scientifically sound use of radiation for the destruction of cells (usually cancer cells), quackery pseudo-scientifically...

represent the stochastic health risk of ionizing radiation, which is defined as the probability of causing radiation-induced cancer and genetic damage. The sievert...

Ionizing Radiation (BEIR) is a committee of the American National Research Council. It publishes reports on the effects of ionizing radiation. BEIR I 1972:...

supplement. It is a medication used for treating hyperthyroidism, in radiation emergencies, and for protecting the thyroid gland when certain types of...

been made in the U.S. at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a radiation source for radiation therapy at the Goiânia hospital. The IAEA states that the source...

Radiation-enhanced diffusion is a phenomenon in radiation material science, wherein the presence of radiation accelerates the diffusion of atoms or ions...

Photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) designates the spectral range (wave band) of solar radiation from 400 to 700 nanometers that photosynthetic organisms...

thermal radiation. Thermal radiation is electromagnetic radiation that most commonly includes both visible radiation (light) and infrared radiation, which...

Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) is a project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment...

has not grown. Tumors more likely to be dangerous can be destroyed with radiation therapy or surgically removed by radical prostatectomy. Those whose cancer...

concentration of the contaminants, the energy of the radiation being emitted, the type of radiation, and the proximity of the contamination to organs of...

the RBMK reactor's design flaws. Suffering from poor health because of radiation exposure, and frustrated that his attempts at reforming Soviet academic...

living organisms, of energy from ionizing radiation, analogously to photosynthesis. Metabolism of ionizing radiation was theorized as early as 1956 by the...

Matter and Radiation at Extremes is a peer-reviewed and diamond open access scientific journal published bimonthly by American Institute of Physics on...

Staple on vocals, Jerry Dammers on keyboards, Lynval Golding and Roddy Radiation on guitars, Horace Panter on bass, John Bradbury on drums, and Dick Cuthell...

radiation detector, is a device used to detect, track, and/or identify ionizing particles, such as those produced by nuclear decay, cosmic radiation,...

Radiation exposure may refer to: Exposure (radiation), caused by ionizing photons, namely X-rays and gamma rays; or ionizing particles, usually alpha particles...

Radiosurgery is surgery using radiation, that is, the destruction of precisely selected areas of tissue using ionizing radiation rather than excision with...

The history of radiation therapy or radiotherapy can be traced back to experiments made soon after the discovery of X-rays (1895), when it was shown that...

health effects of low levels of ionizing radiation on the human body which represents the probability of radiation-induced cancer and genetic damage. It...

Arase, formerly known as Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace (ERG), is a scientific satellite to study the Van Allen belts. It was developed...

radioactive waste bituminisation facility. Over twenty people were exposed to radiation. The second was a criticality accident at a separate fuel reprocessing...

The radiation effects from the Fukushima nuclear accident are the observed and predicted effects as a result of the release of radioactive isotopes from...

are exposed to ionizing radiation when they undergo diagnostic examinations using x-rays or radiopharmaceuticals. Radiation is also used in therapy for...

intra-lesional triamcinolone acetonide (TAC), cryosurgery (freezing), radiation, pulsed dye laser (PDL), interferon (IFN), fluorouracil (5-FU) and surgical...

retired in 1989, before dying in 1990. It is unknown how large of a role radiation caused by Chernobyl played in his death. Boris Shcherbina was born in...

(surface power density) received from the Sun in the form of electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range of the measuring instrument. Solar irradiance...

as the radiation's source by making a balloon ascent during a near-total eclipse. With the moon blocking much of the Sun's visible radiation, Hess still...

thermal effects of microwave radiation absorbed in a living organism. In comparison with radiation burns caused by ionizing radiation, where the dominant mechanism...

factories, scrap markets, and automobile service stations. In 2010, a major radiation accident took place in the scrap yards of Mayapuri. There are some famous...

Jereczek) is a Polish-Italian radiation oncologist and medical researcher. She is currently Full Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of...

phones, and various other electronic devices, emit radiation which consists of non-ionising radiation or radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF EMF)...

The Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC), located in Stoughton, Wisconsin and operated by the University of Wisconsin–Madison, was a national synchrotron...

Sunburn is a form of radiation burn that affects living tissue, such as skin, that results from an overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation, usually from the...

gravitational radiation, gravitational radiation is significantly weaker in magnitude to electromagnetic radiation. The magnitude of the gravitational radiation, or...

can be understood as geometric dilution corresponding to point-source radiation into three-dimensional space. Radar energy expands during both the signal...

"Transparent Radiation" is a song by the American rock band Red Krayola released in June 1967 on their debut studio album The Parable of Arable Land....

In March 1984, a serious radiation accident occurred in Morocco at a Mohammedia factory, where eight people died from pulmonary hemorrhaging caused by...

increased protection of radiation to the contents as the spacecraft endures the radiation environment at planet Jupiter. The Juno Radiation Vault is roughly...

Exobiology Radiation Assembly (ERA) was an experiment that investigated the biological effects of space radiation. An astrobiology mission developed by...

In radiation therapy, bolus is a material which has properties equivalent to tissue when irradiated. It is widely used in practice to reduce or alter...

the evacuation of 154,000 people. At least 22 villages were exposed to radiation from the Kyshtym disaster, with a total population of around 10,000 people...

distribution law) is a law of physics used to describe the spectrum of thermal radiation (frequently called the blackbody function). This law was first derived...

an object is exposed to radiation. An irradiator is a device used to expose an object to radiation, most often gamma radiation, for a variety of purposes...

radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light and infrared radiation with 10% at ultraviolet energies. It is the main source of energy for...

ASTRO (the American Society for Radiation Oncology) is a professional association in radiation oncology that is dedicated to improving patient care through...

of approximately 30 people died from immediate blast trauma and acute radiation syndrome (ARS) in the seconds to months after the disaster respectively...

detection of tumors and uses a lower radiation dose. CT is a moderate-to-high radiation diagnostic technique. The radiation dose for a particular examination...

or tanned. It is most often a result of exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunlight or from artificial sources, such as a tanning lamp found...

was subjected to an involuntary human radiation experiment and survived the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human. On May 14, 1945, he...

Journal of Radiation Biology is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal that covers research into the effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation in biology...

360 nm (violet) to 750 nm (red). When the Sun's radiation reaches the sea surface, the shortwave radiation is attenuated by the water, and the intensity...

lymphoproliferative diseases. Hodgkin lymphoma may be treated with chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and stem-cell transplantation. The choice of treatment often...

plants are exposed to radiation. Some of the mutations produced thereby have turned out to be useful. Typically this is gamma radiation – in which case it...

Radiation Detection Technology and Methods is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published quarterly by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of Institute...

Ionizing radiation can cause biological effects which are passed on to offspring through the epigenome. The effects of radiation on cells has been found...

detecting and measuring ionizing radiation with the use of a Geiger–Müller tube. It is widely used in applications such as radiation dosimetry, radiological protection...

supercritical nuclear chain reaction, which released a burst of hard radiation. He was rushed to the hospital and died nine days later on 30 May. Slotin...

primary cause of skin cancer is prolonged exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun or tanning devices. Skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed...

more electrons from the atom, and may occur if the atom is exposed to radiation with an energy greater than its ionization energy. X-rays and gamma rays...

space. It shields the surface from most meteoroids and ultraviolet solar radiation, reduces diurnal temperature variation – the temperature extremes between...

Solar radiation modification (SRM), also called solar geoengineering, is a group of large-scale approaches to reduce global warming by increasing the...

are two kinds: electric and magnetic multipole radiation. Each of these, being electromagnetic radiation, consists of an electric and a magnetic field...

between the risk of radiation-induced adverse health effects and radiation dose, implying that there is no safe dose of radiation for humans. Nonetheless...

and storage rings used as synchrotron radiation sources, and free electron lasers. "7.14 Synchrotron Radiation Sources". www.ptb.de. 2017-01-23. Retrieved...

that of the electron, there will be no significant deviation from the radiation's incident path and very little kinetic energy will be lost in each collision...

heat by thermal radiation. As Planck's law describes, every physical body spontaneously and continuously emits electromagnetic radiation. Radiative cooling...

ability of radiation to cause certain biological effects, notably either cancer or cell-death, for equivalent radiation exposure. Alpha radiation has a high...

known, though several risk factors are known, such as chronic lymphedema, radiation therapy and various chemicals such as arsenic and vinyl chloride. Angiosarcomas...

radioscope is the electronic production of a visual image by ionising radiation on a radiation detector. They are usually displayed on a display monitor or similar...

(SI) defines the Sievert (Sv) as the unit of equivalent dose, chronic radiation levels and standards are still often given in units of Millirems (mRem)...

The Mars Radiation Environment Experiment (MARIE) was designed to measure the radiation environment of Mars using an energetic particle spectrometer as...

Radiological warfare is any form of warfare involving deliberate radiation poisoning or contamination of an area with radioisotopes, but without the use...

A collimated beam of light or other electromagnetic radiation has parallel rays, and therefore will spread minimally as it propagates. A laser beam is...

is a quantum of the electromagnetic field, including electromagnetic radiation such as light and radio waves, and the force carrier for the electromagnetic...

External beam radiation therapy (EBRT) is a form of radiotherapy that utilizes a high-energy collimated beam of ionizing radiation, from a source outside...

The Therac-25 was a computer-controlled radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in 1982 after the Therac-6 (neptune)...

which produces bremsstrahlung (braking radiation) as the high-energy electrons are decelerated. The amount of radiation escaping the front of the monitor is...

measurement of the strength of the sunburn-producing ultraviolet (UV) radiation at a particular place and time. It is primarily used in daily and hourly...

citation needed] The dipole is any one of a class of antennas producing a radiation pattern approximating that of an elementary electric dipole with a radiating...

in his right parietal lobe. After undergoing radiation therapy (including the then-new implant radiation treatment), Atwater died the following year at...

Radiation hybrid mapping (also known as RH mapping) is a technique for mapping mammalian chromosomes. Radiation hybrid mapping consists of several steps...

There have been several nuclear and radiation accidents involving fatalities, including nuclear power plant accidents, nuclear submarine accidents, and...

Acoustic radiation force (ARF) is a physical phenomenon resulting from the interaction of an acoustic wave with an obstacle placed along its path. Generally...

The "Beagle Club" radiation experiments were a series of studies sponsored by the United States Atomic Energy Commission, which took place over four decades...

YouTube. Also known as the Radiation Halloween Hack, Radiation's Halloween Hack, or Press the B Button Fox, Toby. "Radiation Halloween Hack (Censored)"...

civilian accidents involving radioactive materials or involving ionizing radiation from artificial sources such as x-ray tubes and particle accelerators...

The Space Radiation Laboratory (SRL) is a research group within the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) that develops space instruments and conducts...

flare is a relatively intense, localized emission of electromagnetic radiation in the Sun's atmosphere. Flares occur in active regions and are often...

Nonadaptive radiations are a subset of evolutionary radiations (or species flocks) that are characterized by diversification that is not driven by resource...

The Journal of Synchrotron Radiation is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the International Union...

In physics, Wien's displacement law states that the black-body radiation curve for different temperatures will peak at different wavelengths that are...

A pyrometer, or radiation thermometer, is a type of remote sensing thermometer used to measure the temperature of distant objects. Various forms of pyrometers...

the abundance of light elements, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, the redshift of galaxies and the large-scale structure of the universe...

consisting of all matter that can be observed from Earth; the electromagnetic radiation from these astronomical objects has had time to reach the Solar System...

minerals, when previously absorbed energy from electromagnetic radiation or other ionizing radiation is re-emitted as light upon heating of the material. The...

The Polish Radiation Research Society (PRRS) (Polish: Polskie Towarzystwo Badań Radiacyjnych), memorial to Maria Skłodowska-Curie, is a scientific association...

Caution Radiation Area is the second album of the jazz fusion band Area and was released in 1974. This is the first album that contains the better known...

Bionix Radiation Therapy, LLC is an American medical device company known for manufacturing radiation oncology device. Headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, USA...

existence of Unruh radiation could be linked to this apparent event horizon, putting it in the same conceptual framework as Hawking radiation. On the other...

Radiation levels in Japan are continuously monitored in a number of locations, and a large number stream their data to the internet. Some of these locations...

(Radiation) skyshine describes the ionizing radiation emitted by a nuclear technical or medical facility, reaching the facility's surroundings not directly...

avoiding risk factors and HPV vaccination. Standard treatment may include radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and surgery. About 10,930 people are diagnosed...

(such as a star) can achieve when there is balance between the force of radiation acting outward and the gravitational force acting inward. The state of...

hypothetical form of matter that does not interact with electromagnetic radiation, including light. Dark matter is implied by gravitational effects that...

manufacturer of radiation detection and monitoring equipment such as geiger counters, scintillation counters, dosimeters, and other radiation detection equipment...

protection from contamination with radioactive materials and all types of radiation. They are generally designed to be worn for extended periods to allow...

holds radiation detectors, a radiation source, or both, used to diagnose or treat a patient's illness. Radiation sources may produce gamma radiation, x-rays...

and disperse specific radioisotopes selected for their half-life and radiation type. Fallout can have serious human health consequences on both short-...

Nuclear Power Plant. While on site, Ignatenko received a high dose of radiation, leading to his death at a radiological hospital in Moscow eighteen days...

The Radiation Budget Instrument (RBI) is a scanning radiometer capable of measuring Earth's reflected sunlight and emitted thermal radiation. The project...

Artificial radiation belts are radiation belts that have been created by high-altitude nuclear explosions. The table above only lists those high-altitude...

Galactic Radiation and Background (GRAB) was the first successful United States orbital surveillance program, comprising a series of five Naval Research...

Cosmic background may refer to: Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) Cosmic neutrino background (CνB) Cosmic gravitational wave background (GWB)...

Radiation Exposure Monitoring (REM) is a framework developed by Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), for utilizing existing technical standards...

re-emitted as infrared thermal radiation). The electromagnetic energy is typically radiofrequency or microwave radiation used in industrial heating processes...

The MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology (formerly the Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology) is a research institute at the Department...

The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP), formerly the National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurements, and before...

LLC. The lab was originally established as the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore Branch in 1952 in response to the detonation of...

ray bursts, quasars, blazars, pulsars, and cosmic microwave background radiation. More generally, astronomy studies everything that originates beyond Earth's...

The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials – watch dials and hands with self-luminous...

reached the radiation channel around the secondary. The last two pipes (3) noted the time radiation reached the far end of the radiation channel, the...

cases palliative treatments may include surgical resection, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and stenting procedures. In about a third of cases involving...

microporosities, cracks, precipitates or grains in a specimen. Synchrotron radiation is created by accelerating free particles in high vacuum. By the laws...

Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) is the process of frequent imaging, during a course of radiation treatment, used to direct the treatment, position...

effect after the repeal of the Protection from Radiation Act No. 5 of 1983, which created the National Radiation Commission (NRC) in 1983. The TAEC was established...

The Radiation Monitoring Center (RMC; traditional Chinese: 輻射偵測中心; simplified Chinese: 辐射侦测中心; pinyin: Fúshè Zhēncè Zhōngxīn) is the agency of the Nuclear...

X-rays and gamma rays, and is defined as the electric charge freed by such radiation in a specified volume of air divided by the mass of that air (statcoulomb...

Sarah S. Donaldson (born 1939) is an American pediatric radiation oncologist and retired professor at Stanford University. Donaldson was born in Portland...

formed radiation belts around the Earth. The added electrons increased the intensity of electrons within the natural inner Van Allen radiation belt by...

theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Initially, Hawking radiation was controversial. By the late 1970s, and...

called 'secondary' because they are generated by other radiation (the primary radiation). This radiation can be in the form of ions, electrons, or photons...

key performance parameter which combines the antenna's directivity and radiation efficiency. The term power gain has been deprecated by IEEE. In a transmitting...

Alpha particles, also called alpha rays or alpha radiation, consist of two protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle identical to the nucleus...

(Magnetically Accelerated Ring to Achieve Ultra-high Directed Energy and Radiation) was a United States Air Force Research Laboratory project concerning...

ionizing radiation and radioactive debris that is harmful to humans and can cause moderate to severe skin burns, eye damage, radiation sickness, radiation-induced...

Radiation-induced thyroiditis is a form of painful, acute thyroiditis resulting from radioactive therapy to treat hyperthyroidism or from radiation to...

can become lodged in living tissue and deliver a concentrated dose of radiation to a small area. A generally accepted theory proposes that hot particles...

National Institute of Radiological Sciences (放射線医学総合研究所) (NIRS) is a radiation research institute in Japan. The NIRS was established in 1957 as Japan's...

would have to be radiated by a half-wave dipole antenna to give the same radiation intensity (signal strength, or power flux density, expressed as power...

Earth". Parker then conjectured that "the corona and solar corpuscular radiation must be the same thing": Parker himself said that the math needed for...

and Radiation from 2003 to 2013, a Project Scientist of the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment and the President of the International Radiation Commission...

two-stage design, where the X-rays from a fission bomb are directed toward radiation implosion of a secondary device containing fusion fuel. The experimental...

The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) was set up by resolution of the United Nations General Assembly in...

pre-clinical and clinical testing of radiation modifiers and the mechanisms of normal tissue injury from radiation. She is a senior investigator and deputy...

with a half-life of 1,600 years. When radium decays, it emits ionizing radiation as a by-product, which can excite fluorescent chemicals and cause radioluminescence...

optical fibers are exposed to ionizing radiation such as energetic electrons, protons, neutrons, X-rays, Ƴ-radiation, etc., they undergo 'damage'. The term...

accident began on December 2, 2001, with the discovery of two orphan radiation sources near the Enguri Dam in Tsalenjikha District in the country of...

Synchrotron radiation circular dichroism spectroscopy, commonly referred to as SRCD and also known as VUV-circular dichroism or VUVCD spectroscopy, is...

In fiber optics, the radiation angle is half the vertex angle of the cone of light emitted at the exit face of an optical fiber. The cone boundary is...

Radiation effect is the physical and chemical property changes of materials induced by radiation. One such phenomena is acute radiation syndrome, caused...

same in all directions (isotropic), why the cosmic microwave background radiation is distributed evenly, why the universe is flat, and why no magnetic monopoles...

(sources) is called electromagnetic radiation (EMR) since it radiates from the charges and currents in the source. Such radiation can occur across a wide range...

constant temperature) through a thermal link. The result is that any radiation impinging on the absorptive element raises its temperature above that...

Rev. Lett. 21, 1483 (1968) Wide-Band Bar Detectors Of Gravitational Radiation, Jean-Paul Richard, Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 165 (1984). Approaching The Quantum...

There are different forms of radiation therapy, including 3D conformal radiation therapy, intensity-modulated radiation therapy, particle beam therapy...

specific range within the infrared spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. It encompasses radiation with wavelengths ranging from 15 μm (micrometers) to 1 mm...

March 26, 1964) is an American radiation oncologist. She is the Willem and Corrie Hees Family Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School...

technique using X-rays, gamma rays, or similar ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation to view the internal form of an object. Applications of radiography...

attempted to protect participants in the Operation Crossroads tests against radiation sickness, but one study showed that the life expectancy of participants...

April 1986, hundreds received very high radiation doses with 134 of them being diagnosed officially with radiation sickness. This article details the specific...

shortwave radiation (sunlight) that passes through greenhouse gases to heat the Earth's surface. In response, the Earth's surface emits longwave radiation that...

single-event burnout (SEB). These are all examples of a general class of radiation effects in electronic devices called single-event effects (SEEs). Single-event...

In quantum field theory, initial and final state radiation refers to certain kinds of radiative emissions that are not due to[clarification needed] particle...

Commission of Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) is an international commission specialized in non-ionizing radiation protection. The organization's...

particulate radiation can be energetic enough to ionize atoms or molecules (ionizing radiation), or less energetic (non-ionizing radiation).[citation needed]...

reactions to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. These abnormal skin reactions may develop into rashes. While reactions to UV radiation is common, true photodermatoses...

Brachytherapy is a form of radiation therapy where a sealed radiation source is placed inside or next to the area requiring treatment. The word "brachytherapy"...

ROBUSTA-1B (Radiation on Bipolar Test for University Satellite Application) is a nano-satellite (Cubesat) scientific experiment developed by the University...

Deinococcus radiodurans is a bacterium, an extremophile and one of the most radiation-resistant organisms known. It can survive cold, dehydration, vacuum, and...

thermonuclear weapons, also known as hydrogen bombs. The design relies on the radiation implosion principle, using thermal X-rays released from a fission nuclear...

electrometer (QFE), is a type of radiation dosimeter, a pen-like device that measures the cumulative dose of ionizing radiation received by the device, usually...

The interstellar medium (ISM) is the matter and radiation that exists in the space between the star systems in a galaxy. This matter includes gas in ionic...

radiography. Radiation source for leveling devices and thickness gauges. Radiation source for pest insect sterilization. As a radiation source for food...

event (SPE), also known as a solar energetic particle event or solar radiation storm, is a solar phenomenon that occurs when particles emitted by the...

radiation called gamma radiation is used to check whether the bottles are full at the bottling plant. This can be done by placing a gamma radiation source...

signal, but it is effectively canceled by radiation from the other wire, resulting in almost no radiation loss. Coaxial cables are commonly used at audio...

electromagnetic radiation on humans. She is best known for performing the first human studies demonstrating the safety of microwave radiation. Adair was born...

particles, conventionally called radiation, by the time of neutrino decoupling at about 1 second. During radiation domination, cosmic expansion decelerated...

The Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG), headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was organized in 1968 under the direction of Dr. Simon Kramer...

A broadcast storm or broadcast radiation is the accumulation of broadcast and multicast traffic on a computer network. Extreme amounts of broadcast traffic...

Infections caused by exposure to ionizing radiation can be extremely dangerous, and are of public and government concern. Numerous studies have demonstrated...

history of the condition. Risk factors for uterine sarcoma include prior radiation therapy to the pelvis. Diagnosis of endometrial cancer is typically based...

The Colorado Inner Radiation Belt Experiment (CIRBE) was a NASA sponsored CubeSat mission. The mission's science instrument REPTile-2 was designed and...

particle emitting electromagnetic radiation by self-interaction. It is also called the radiation reaction force, the radiation damping force, or the self-force...

radiation accidents and incidents Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents List of civilian nuclear accidents List of civilian radiation accidents...

including: Internal energy: The energy contained within a body of matter or radiation, excluding the potential energy of the whole system. Heat: Energy in transfer...

modify the driven element's radiation pattern. The waves from the multiple elements superpose and interfere to enhance radiation in a single direction, increasing...

typically focuses on a specialty area in cancer treatment, such as surgery, radiation, gynecological oncology, geriatric oncology, pediatric oncology, and various...

radiation quantities in SI and non-SI units. WR (formerly 'Q' factor) is a factor that scales the biological effect for different types of radiation,...

The Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) was a NASA scientific research satellite. The satellite was one of three satellites in NASA's research program...

magnetic field emit very bright and coherent photon beams via synchrotron radiation. It has numerous uses in the study of atomic structure, chemistry, condensed...

attached to the rim of the dish. The shroud shields the antenna from radiation from angles outside the main beam axis, reducing the sidelobes. It is...

The Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (Finnish: Säteilyturvakeskus, Swedish: Strålsäkerhetscentralen), often abbreviated as STUK, is a government...

exact "vibration" in an energized atom. The frequency of vibration (i.e., radiation) is very specific depending on the type of atom and how it is excited...

Institute of Radiation Problems is a part of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. The Radiation Research Sector of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan...

application is important in a wide range of thermodynamic areas such as radiation protection, ion implantation and nuclear medicine. Both charged and uncharged...

The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) is a regulatory agency under the Commonwealth of Australia that aims to protect...

of the Chernobyl exclusion zone until April 2022 had caused a spike in radiation levels. The names Chernobyl and Chornobyl are identical in form to the...

military nuclear accidents. Civil radiation accidents not involving fissile material are listed at List of civilian radiation accidents. For a general discussion...

measurement of ionising radiation the counting efficiency is the ratio between the number of particles or photons counted with a radiation counter and the number...

The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (formerly Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory), a division of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory...

2007, she led the Department of Energy Vermont EPSCoR Program. Fellow, Radiation Research Society (2022–present) Fellow of the American Academy of Arts...

The International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA) is an independent non-profit association of national and regional radiation protection societies...

effective height of an antenna is the height of the antenna's center of radiation above the ground. In low-frequency applications involving loaded or nonloaded...

Radioactive substances are materials that emit radiation. Any quantity of packages bearing the RADIOACTIVE YELLOW III label (LSA-III). Some radioactive...

ALARM (Air Launched Anti-Radiation Missile) is a British anti-radiation missile designed primarily to destroy enemy radars for the purpose of Suppression...

would emit a form of radiation (now called Hawking radiation in his honor). He also argued that the detailed form of the radiation would be independent...

(electrons and holes) can be finely tuned by doping, temperature, voltage and radiation – the basis of modern electronics. Electrons can exist as free particles...

Quynh-Thu Le is a Vietnamese radiation oncologist specializing in head and neck cancer. She is the Katherine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial...

The Radiation Safety Information Computational Center (RSICC) collects, analyzes, maintains, and distributes computer software and data sets in the areas...

unable to measure high radiation rates efficiently, has a finite life in high radiation areas and cannot measure incident radiation energy, so no spectral...

the total spectrum of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun Diffuse sky radiation, solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface after having...

Imaging and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer...

the ratio of radiation absorbed by any other surface versus the total emitted radiation from given surface. As such, it becomes the radiation exchange factor...

kryptonite radiation of the asteroid. The protective shield was destroyed in a meteor storm, exposing the inhabitants to kryptonite radiation. The sole...

that formed soon after the Big Bang. In the inflationary era and early radiation-dominated universe, extremely dense pockets of subatomic matter may have...

risk factors include the Epstein–Barr virus, chewing betel quid (paan), radiation exposure, poor nutrition and workplace exposure to certain toxic substances...

extreme environments, such as extreme temperature (hot or cold), pressure, radiation, salinity, or pH level. Extremophiles are mainly species of microorganisms...

supersonic and hypersonic air-to-surface (ASM) ground attack and anti-radiation missiles in development by the Defence Research and Development Organisation...

ionizing radiation (0 to 2 Gy (Gray) (Gy = 100 rad)) have not been a major consideration. However, the heavy ion component of space radiation presents...

called radiation transport) is the physical phenomenon of energy transfer in the form of electromagnetic radiation. The propagation of radiation through...

formerly known as the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), are two robotic spacecraft that were used to study the Van Allen radiation belts that surround...

in which a thermal camera detects infrared radiation originating from the surface of objects. This radiation has two main components: thermal emission...

radiation treatment safety for oncology patients. He is a recipient of the ASTRO Gold Medal for outstanding contributions in the field of radiation oncology...

immigrans-tripunctata radiation is a speciose lineage of Drosophila flies, including over 300 species. The immigrans-tripunctata radiation is a sister lineage...

The candidate phyla radiation (also referred to as CPR group) is a large evolutionary radiation of bacterial lineages whose members are mostly uncultivated...

Nullpunktsenergie. Sometimes used interchangeably with it are the terms zero-point radiation and ground state energy. The term zero-point field (ZPF) can be used when...

EarthCARE (derived from Earth Cloud, Aerosol and Radiation Explorer), nicknamed Hakuryū (Japanese for "white dragon"), is a joint European/Japanese (ESA...

02°38′26″W / 53.34306°N 2.64056°W / 53.34306; -2.64056 The Synchrotron Radiation Source (SRS) at the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire, England was the...

Solar Radiation and Thermospheric Satellite (SRATS), also knows as Taiyo ("Sun" in Japanese) or Shinsei-3, was a space probe developed by the Institute...

concentrating radiation, solar radiation in particular, to produce electricity. Luminescent solar concentrators operate on the principle of collecting radiation over...

In applied mathematics, and theoretical physics, the Sommerfeld radiation condition is a concept from theory of differential equations and scattering...

immune disease, inherited diseases, or by exposure to chemicals, drugs, or radiation. However, in about half of cases, the cause is unknown. Aplastic anemia...

Friends. Firestar has the ability to generate and manipulate microwave radiation, allowing her to fly and create intense heat and flames. In the comics...

field of magnetospheric research in space. His discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts in 1958, zones of energetic charged particles trapped by Earth's...

Sound amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (SASER) refers to a device that emits acoustic radiation. It focuses sound waves in a way that they...

biological process called radiosynthesis, which means using ionizing radiation as a main energy source to drive metabolization. It has been claimed that...

The International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU) is a standardization body set up in 1925 by the International Congress of Radiology...

coherent gravitational radiation or gravitons, much in the same way that a standard laser produces coherent electromagnetic radiation. While photons exist...

against ionizing radiation. Its first product was the 360 Gamma, a device that protects the user's pelvic bone marrow from gamma radiation. StemRad has also...

alcohol consumption, hormone replacement therapy during menopause, ionizing radiation, an early age at first menstruation, having children late in life (or...

selectivity is defined as the ratio of solar radiation absorption (αsol) to thermal infrared radiation emission (εtherm). Selective surfaces take advantage...

South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is an area where Earth's inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to Earth's surface, dipping down to an altitude of...

survive in very dry environments, and can withstand even higher amounts of radiation than cockroaches. Red flour beetles infest multiple different types of...

American radiation oncologist and cancer biologist. He is a Professor and Division Chief of Radiation and Cancer Biology in the Department of Radiation Oncology...

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement User Facility (ARM User Facility or ARM), a multi-laboratory U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility...

Neutron embrittlement, sometimes more broadly radiation embrittlement, is the embrittlement of various materials due to the action of neutrons. This is...

The discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation constitutes a major development in modern physical cosmology. In 1964, American physicist Arno...

biological effects of ionizing radiation. The sievert (Sv), the SI unit representing the stochastic health risk of ionizing radiation, is named for him. He has...

or crime rings and alleges that the "perpetrators" use electromagnetic radiation (such as the microwave auditory effect), radar, and surveillance techniques...

(WBRT) is a treatment option for patients with brain metastases. In WBRT, radiation therapy is administered broadly, to the whole brain, over multiple treatments...

Intraoperative electron radiation therapy is the application of electron radiation directly to the residual tumor or tumor bed during cancer surgery. Electron...

The European Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR) is an informal committee formed in 1997 following a meeting by the European Green Party at the European...

various mechanisms, such as thermal conduction, thermal convection, thermal radiation, transfer of energy by phase changes, and evaporative cooling. Engineers...

radiation measurement. He grew up in Highland Park, Illinois. He founded Landauer, Inc. in 1954, which is the world's largest provider of radiation measurement...

light of a specific frequency (or of any other form of electromagnetic radiation). Similarly, the energy of an electron bound within an atom is quantized...

Radiation Effects in Insulators (REI) is a long-running international conference series dedicated to basic and applied scientific research relating to...

to radiation (radiation genomics) or to refer to the correlation between cancer imaging features and gene expression (imaging genomics). In radiation genomics...

is a US radiation detection holding company headquartered in Canoga Park, CA specializing in the development and manufacturing of radiation detection...

Net feedbacks will stay negative largely because of increased thermal radiation as the planet warms, which is an effect that is several times larger than...

the high of the trip, represented by "Ecstasy Symphony"/"Transparent Radiation (Flashback)," moving on to the moment of realisation where the high has...

inflammatory damage (radiation pneumonitis) and later complications of chronic scarring (radiation fibrosis). Pulmonary radiation injury is an unavoidable...

Radiation Protection Dosimetry is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering radiation dosimetry, among others personal and environmental dosimetry...

Crater on Mars. Currently, the surface of Mars is bathed with ionizing radiation, and Martian soil is rich in perchlorates toxic to microorganisms. Therefore...

situated in different parts of the world and recorded their first EP "Radiation" without meeting in person. Although many thought the UKZ name referenced...

Epidemiological studies of the health effects of low levels of ionizing radiation, in particular the incidence and mortality from various forms of cancer...

ultraviolet light (UV) (usually from sun exposure), having lighter skin, radiation therapy, long-term exposure to arsenic, and poor immune-system function...

ROBUSTA (Radiation on Bipolar for University Satellite Test Application) is a nano-satellite scientific experiment developed by the University of Montpellier...

or porcelain. Radiation originating from earth is also a major contributor to background radiation. Another limitation of gamma radiation detectors is...

Cosmic infrared background is infrared radiation caused by stellar dust. Recognizing the cosmological importance of the darkness of the night sky (Olbers'...

materials engineer and nuclear engineer whose research concerns radiation damage and radiation tolerance in alloys. Educated in China and Sweden, she has worked...

different sensors is combined in a way where the expected pattern of radiation is preferentially observed. For example, in sonar, to send a sharp pulse...

Radiation Experiments was established in 1994 to investigate questions of the record of the United States government with respect to human radiation experiments...

atmosphere contains greenhouse gas in an amount sufficient to block thermal radiation from leaving the planet, preventing the planet from cooling and from having...

the absorber, concentrator, solar radiation tracker and thermal absorber. As the CPVT works with the beam radiation, the absorber and concentrator should...

patient's risk of radiation-induced cancer. In addition to the cancer risk and other stochastic radiation effects, deterministic radiation effects have also...

A radiation incident occurred in Prachin Buri Province, Thailand on 10 March 2023, when a 25-kg cylinder (measuring 30 cm by 13 cm) containing radioactive...

radiation with levels below those suggested by the guidelines of regulating bodies, including the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection...

CEO of New York Medical College (NYMC) where he is also a professor of radiation medicine, pediatrics and history. He also serves as the Miriam Popack...

which infers temperature from a portion of the thermal radiation, sometimes called black-body radiation, emitted by the object being measured. They are sometimes...

arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere, following a nuclear war some years previously. As the radiation approaches,...

shield is a device to protect an object from unwanted heating by thermal radiation or light. Usually it is a cooled object with low absorption and high reflectivity...

or chemical compound is the spectrum of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation emitted due to electrons making a transition from a high energy state...

Henschke, M.D., Ph.D. (August 9, 1914 – June 29, 1980) was a German-American radiation oncologist and medical physicist best known for pioneering modern brachytherapy...

tissue endpoints, including tumor induction, demonstrate risk from space radiation exposure. This evidence may be extrapolated to applicable chronic conditions...

applied across a gaseous medium; initial ions are created with ionising radiation (for example, cosmic rays). An original ionisation event produces an ion...

for developing the Theory of Transition Radiation and showing the feasibility of functional transition radiation detectors (TRDs). G.M.Garibian was born...

American chemist, a pioneer in the field of radiation chemistry and radiobiology. He founded the Radiation Laboratory at University of Notre Dame in 1949...

physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine using X-rays from synchrotron radiation and a free-electron laser as well as experimental and theoretical research...

dielectric properties of the bath gas. The emission of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) during plastic deformation and crack propagation in metals and rocks...

The magnetic radiation reaction force is a force on an electromagnet when its magnetic moment changes. One can derive an electric radiation reaction force...

scanners do not generate ionizing radiation. X-ray-based scanners Backscatter X-ray scanners use low dose radiation for detecting suspicious metallic...

compounds by the action of ultraviolet light, e.g. CFCl 3 + electromagnetic radiation → Cl· + ·CFCl 2 Ozone is a highly reactive molecule that easily reduces...

citizens suffering from acute radiation syndrome (ARS). After a nurse realizes the firefighters have severe radiation burns, she has her staff remove...

received adjuvant radiation. However, functional outcomes were worse if radiation was added to surgery and even worse if both radiation and chemotherapy...

The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (Swedish: Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten) is the Swedish government authority responsible for radiation protection....

12 December 1945 in Chicago) is an American physician specializing in radiation oncology, a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy...

background (CMB) radiation that immediately attracted attention [...] both experimentalists interested in measuring the properties of this radiation and theorists...

electromagnetic radiation as it accelerates. The particle loses momentum and energy as a result of the radiation, which is carrying it away from it. The radiation response...

(LNT) is a dose-response model used in radiation protection to estimate stochastic health effects such as radiation-induced cancer, genetic mutations and...

development of the Domino Ring Sampler series of chips IEEE Emilio Gatti Radiation Instrumentation Technical Achievement Award in 2020 for contributions...

elements, which serve to direct the radio waves into a beam or other desired radiation pattern. Strong directivity and good transmitting efficiency when transmitting...

The Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) is a joint U.S.-Japan research organization responsible for studying the medical effects of radiation and...

Hawking radiation. This Hawking radiation can be spontaneously created by quantum vacuum fluctuations, in close analogy with Hawking radiation from a real...

Halos' radiation pattern is mostly in-plane and nearly omnidirectional, about the same as small loops' radiation pattern. Halos' radiation efficiency...

own specific treatment. Treatments can include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormonal therapy, targeted therapy including small-molecule drugs...

Association of Radiation Oncologists of India. The journal covers research in oncology, radiation oncology, medical imaging, radiation protection, non-ionising...

the problems of nuclear power and radiation, preceded by Hibakusha at the End of the World (also known as Radiation: A Slow Death) and Rokkasho Rhapsody...

Bandwidth (signal processing) Electromagnetic interference Electromagnetic radiation Electromagnetic spectrum EMF measurement Frequency allocation Frequency...

maxima) of the far field radiation pattern of an antenna or other radiation source, that are not the main lobe. The radiation pattern of most antennas...