background: radon is one of the most important radioactive elements which is released by natural decay of available uranium and radium in the ground. the presence of radon gas is common, wherever those faults are located there. radon concentration of various drinking water resources of bam villages; located near bam fault; was measured. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was cond...

abstract to study the efficacy of glyphosate and nicosulfuron herbicides on barnyardgrass [echinochloa crus-galii (l.) p. beauv.] and velvetleaf (abotilon theophrasti medicus.) control and to find the ed50 index, experiments were conducted as factorial arrangement of treatments 2×7 based on completely randomized design with six replications for each weed in 2008-9 at research greenhouse, ferdow...

medical x-rays are the largest man-made source of public exposure to ionizing radiation. while the benefits of computed tomography (ct) are well known in accurate diagnosis, those benefits are not risk free. ct is a device with higher patient dose in comparison with other conventional radiation procedures. so it is important to avoid conditions where the amount of radiation used is more than th...

this study was a part of national project to establish and optimize local and national diagnostic guidance levels. this work intends to evaluate image quality and entrance surface air kerma (esak) for patients' radiographic examinations in two north western provinces of country. two hospitals got involved in the present study. the rate of the rejected images and image quality grades were determ...

background: iron, manganese, and aluminum are three abundant metals on earth and their concentrations have increased in aquatic environments as a result of natural and industrial activities. this study was undertaken to report the median acute toxicity (lc50) and accumulation of the sub-lethal concentration (10% 96-h lc50) of iron (fe), manganese (mn) and aluminum (al) in kutum (rutilus kutum) ...

introduction: radioiodine therapy is an effective method for treating thyroid cancer carcinoma, but it has some affects on normal tissues, hence dosimetry of vital organs are important to weigh the risks and benefits of this method. the aim of this study is to measure the absorbed doses of important organs by mcnp (monte carlo n particle) simulation and comparing the results of different method...

introduction: the complex geometry of breast and also lung and heart inhomogeneities near the planning target volume (ptv) result in perturbations in dose distribution. this problem can result in overdosage or underdosage in the match region of the three treatment fields. the purpose of this study is to create a homogeneous dose distribution in the match region between the supraclavicular and t...

introduction: among different kinds of oral cavity cancers, the frequency of tongue cancer occurrence is more significant. brachytherapy is the most common method to cure tongue cancers. long sources are used in different techniques of tongue brachytherapy. the objective of this study is to asses the dose distribution around long sources, comparing different radioisotopes as brachytherapy sourc...

introduction: clinical application of encapsulated radioactive brachytherapy sources has a major role in cancer treatment. in the present research, the effects of different tissue densities on the dose distribution of a 103pd brachytherapy source in a spherical phantom of 50 cm radius have been studied. material and methods: as is well known, absorbed dose in tissue depends to its density, but ...

conclusions due to the significant reduction in the mean inactivation dose of colon cancer cells in the presence of gold nanoparticles, it seems that gnps are suitable options to achieve a new approach in order to improve radiotherapy efficiency without increasing the prescribed radiation dose. results cell survival in the presence of gnps was more than 90% and the maximum uptake of gnps was ob...