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About us national committee for responsive philanthropy. Full text full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Without any additional information, ill assume that you are referring to shielding design for medical xray imaging facilities. Structural shielding design and evaluation for megavoltage x and gammaray radiotherapy facilities will be the basis for this practical course. Langlais dds, ms the purpose of this article is to summarize the newest dental xray guidelines from the national council on. Shielding design for linear accelerators using ncrp report 151. History, technical feasibility, mechanism of action, normal biodistribution, and diagnostic performance in bone metastasis detection compared with other imaging modalities. The national council on radiation protection and measurements ncrp seeks to formulate and widely disseminate information, guidance and recommendations on r. The ncrp in their recently released report, ncrp report no. Langlais dds, ms the purpose of this article is to summarize the newest dental xray guidelines from the national council on radiation. Shielding evaluation for a radiotherapy bunker by ncrp 151 and portuguese regulation on radiation safety maria jose rodrigues1, maria esmeralda poli2 1institute of biophysics and biomedical engineering, faculty of sciences of the university of lisbon, lisbon, portugal.
The application of the structural shielding design techniques and goals as outlined in ncrp report 147. Bolus, msph, mph, cnmt, fsnmmits nuclear medicine technology program, clinical and diagnostic sciences department, university of alabama at birmingham. By order of the executive director office of the federal register washington, d. The ncrp recognizes this difference in workload for imrt. Structural shielding design for medical xray imaging facilities november 2004 and ncrp report 151. Medical physics shielding design for linear accelerators ncrp151. Shielding evaluation for a radiotherapy bunker by ncrp 151. Ncrp report 151 structural shielding design and evaluation for megavoltage xand gammaray radiotherapy facilities. Structural shielding design and evaluation for megavoltage x and gammaray radiotherapy facilities. Structural shielding design and evaluation for medical use of xrays and gammarays up to 10 mev.
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