background: activity concentrations of 40k, 226ra and 228ra were measured in some sachet drinking water samples produced in nigeria. materials and methods: the measurement was done by using high-purity germanium (hpge) detector (canberra industries inc.). the measured activity concentrations for 226ra (u-series) and 228ra (thseries) were used with their ingested dose conversion factors to estim...

Background: Activity concentrations of 40K, 226Ra and 228Ra were measured in some sachet drinking water samples produced in Nigeria. Materials and Methods: The measurement was done by using high-purity germanium (HPGe) detector (Canberra Industries Inc.). The measured activity concentrations for 226Ra (U-series) and 228Ra (Thseries) were used with their ingested dose conversion factors ...

we aimed to determine the clinical manifestations of tramadol intoxication in children and to find its potential poor prognostic factors. in a retrospective study, from 1363 cases of admitted pediatric poisoning, all tramadol-exposed hospitalized patients younger than 12 years were included in the study. they were hospitalized between march 2010 and april 2012 to the only referral hospital for ...

essential oil of rosmarinus officinallis was investigated on toxicity and physiological aspect of elm leaf beetle xanthogaleruca luteola mull. for 3rd instar larvae and adults in controlled condition (25 ± 2 °c; 14:10ld; 65% rh). lc50 were estimated 2.55 and 1.11 for 3rd instar larvae and adults respectively. the effect of lc50 dose on remaining insects were investigated on nutritional indices....

introduction based on task group no. 43 (tg-43u1) recommendations, water phantom is proposed as a reference phantom for the dosimetry of brachytherapy sources. the experimental determination of tg-43 parameters is usually performed in water-equivalent solid phantoms. the purpose of this study was to determine the conversion factors for equalizing solid phantoms to water. materials and methods t...

Introduction Based on Task Group No. 43 (TG-43U1) recommendations, water phantom is proposed as a reference phantom for the dosimetry of brachytherapy sources. The experimental determination of TG-43 parameters is usually performed in water-equivalent solid phantoms. The purpose of this study was to determine the conversion factors for equalizing solid phantoms to water. Materials and Methods T...

control of stored-product insect by gamma radiation could be enhanced by other possible techniques such as essential oils as effective alternatives to chemical insecticides. in this study, the efficiency of gamma radiation combined with perovskia atriplicifolia (benth) was verified to assess their enhanced antifeedant effect against the tribolium castaneum (herbst). flour disc bioassay was empl...

Environmental releases of tritium oxide at a number of Department of Energy nuclear weapons facilities contribute to a significant portion of environmental dose. Several conversion factors are utilized in the estimation of human impact from these releases, e.g., dispersion coefficients, consumption rates, uptake factors, transport factors, dose conversion factors, and risk coefficients. A proba...

Introduction: This study aimed to establish the conversion factors to normalize the output dose of volumetric computed tomography dose index (CTDIvol) to the patient dose (i.e. size-specific dose estimate (SSDE)) for various phantom diameters and tube voltages. Material and Methods: In-house cylindrical acrylic phantoms with physical diameter...