JOURNAL DESCRIPTION
The Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety journal ISSN 1024-6177 was founded in January 1956 (before December 30, 1993 it was entitled Medical Radiology, ISSN 0025-8334). In 2018, the journal received Online ISSN: 2618-9615 and was registered as an electronic online publication in Roskomnadzor on March 29, 2018. It publishes original research articles which cover questions of radiobiology, radiation medicine, radiation safety, radiation therapy, nuclear medicine and scientific reviews. In general the journal has more than 30 headings and it is of interest for specialists working in thefields of medicine¸ radiation biology, epidemiology, medical physics and technology. Since July 01, 2008 the journal has been published by State Research Center - Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of Federal Medical Biological Agency. The founder from 1956 to the present time is the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, and from 2008 to the present time is the Federal Medical Biological Agency.
Members of the editorial board are scientists specializing in the field of radiation biology and medicine, radiation protection, radiation epidemiology, radiation oncology, radiation diagnostics and therapy, nuclear medicine and medical physics. The editorial board consists of academicians (members of the Russian Academy of Science (RAS)), the full member of Academy of Medical Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, corresponding members of the RAS, Doctors of Medicine, professor, candidates and doctors of biological, physical mathematics and engineering sciences. The editorial board is constantly replenished by experts who work in the CIS and foreign countries.
Six issues of the journal are published per year, the volume is 13.5 conventional printed sheets, 88 printer’s sheets, 1.000 copies. The journal has an identical full-text electronic version, which, simultaneously with the printed version and color drawings, is posted on the sites of the Scientific Electronic Library (SEL) and the journal's website. The journal is distributed through the Rospechat Agency under the contract № 7407 of June 16, 2006, through individual buyers and commercial structures. The publication of articles is free.
The journal is included in the List of Russian Reviewed Scientific Journals of the Higher Attestation Commission. Since 2008 the journal has been available on the Internet and indexed in the RISC database which is placed on Web of Science. Since February 2nd, 2018, the journal "Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety" has been indexed in the SCOPUS abstract and citation database.
Brief electronic versions of the Journal have been publicly available since 2005 on the website of the Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety Journal: http://www.medradiol.ru. Since 2011, all issues of the journal as a whole are publicly available, and since 2016 - full-text versions of scientific articles. Since 2005, subscribers can purchase full versions of other articles of any issue only through the National Electronic Library. The editor of the Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety Journal in accordance with the National Electronic Library agreement has been providing the Library with all its production since 2005 until now.
The main working language of the journal is Russian, an additional language is English, which is used to write titles of articles, information about authors, annotations, key words, a list of literature.
Since 2017 the journal Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety has switched to digital identification of publications, assigning to each article the identifier of the digital object (DOI), which greatly accelerated the search for the location of the article on the Internet. In future it is planned to publish the English-language version of the journal Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety for its development. In order to obtain information about the publication activity of the journal in March 2015, a counter of readers' references to the materials posted on the site from 2005 to the present which is placed on the journal's website. During 2015 - 2016 years on average there were no more than 100-170 handlings per day. Publication of a number of articles, as well as electronic versions of profile monographs and collections in the public domain, dramatically increased the number of handlings to the journal's website to 500 - 800 per day, and the total number of visits to the site at the end of 2017 was more than 230.000.
The two-year impact factor of RISC, according to data for 2017, was 0.439, taking into account citation from all sources - 0.570, and the five-year impact factor of RISC - 0.352.
Issues journals
Medial Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2018. Vol. 63. No. 5. P. 48 –54
RADIATION PHYSIS, TEHNOLOGY AND DOSIMETRY
DOI: 10.12737/artile_5b896ee239387.41111179
Cattle's Thyroid Dose Estimation with Compartmental Model of Iodine Metabolism and Monte Carlo Transport Technique
Yu.A. Kurahenko1, N.I. Sanzharova1, G.V. Kozmin1, V.A. Budarkov2, E.N. Denisova1, A.S. Snegirev1
1. Russian Institute of Radiology and Agroeology (RIRAE), Obninsk, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; 2. Federal Researh enter of Virology and Mirobiology, Volginsky, Russia
Yu. A. Kurachenko - Chief Researcher, Dr. Sc. Phys-Math.; N.I. Sanzharova - RIRAE Director, RAS Corr.Member, Dr. Sc. Biol.; G.V. Kozmin - Leading Researcher, PhD Biol.; V.A. Budarkov - Chief Researcher, Dr. Sc. Biol.;
E.N. Denisova - Junior Researcher, Post-Graduate Student; A.S. Snegirev - Junior Researcher, Post-Graduate Student
Abstrat
Purpose: This work aims first to improve the reliability of absorbed dose calculation in critical organs of cattle during internal irradiation immediately after radiation accidents by a) improving the compartmental model of radionuclide metabolism in animal body; b) the use of precision computing technologies for modeling as the domain, and the actual radiation transport. In addition, the aim of the work is to determine the agreed values of the 131I critical dose in the cattle thyroid, leading to serious gland dysfunction and its follow-up destruction.
Material and methods: To achieve aforecited goals, comprehensive studies were carried out to specify the parameters of the compartmental model, based on reliable experimental and theoretical data. Voxel technologies were applied for modeling the subject domain (thyroid gland and its environment). Finally, to solve the 131I radiation transport equation, the Monte Carlo code was applied, which takes into account the contribution of gamma and beta radiation source, and the contribution of the entire chain of secondary radiations in the dose calculation, up to the total energy dissipation.
Results: As the main theoretical result, it is necessary to emphasize the conversion factor from the 131I activity, distributed uniformly in volume of the thyroid gland, to the average dose rate in the gland (Bq × Gy/s). This factor was calculated for both cows and calves in the selected domain configuration and thyroid morphology. The main practical result is a reliable estimation the lower bound of the absorbed dose in the thyroid, which in a short time leads to its destruction under internal 131I irradiation: ~300 Gy.
Conclusion: Usage a compartmental model of the 131I metabolism with biokinetic parameters, received on the basis of reliable experimental data, and precise models of both the subject area and radiation transport for evaluation the dose in the cattle thyroid after the radiation accident allowed to obtain reliable values of the thyroid dose, adducting to its destruction at short notice.
Key words: radiation accident, cattle, radioactive iodine, thyroid gland, compartmental model, radiation transport, absorbed dose
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For itation: Kurahenko YuA, Sanzharova NI, Kozmin GV, Budarkov VA, Denisova EN, Snegirev AS. Cattle's Thyroid Dose Estimation with Compartmental Model of Iodine Metabolism and Monte Carlo Transport Technique. Medial Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2018;63(5): 48-54.
PDF (RUS) Full-text article (in English)Medial Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2018. Vol. 63. No. 5. P. 55–64
TRAINING OF RADIATION SPECIALISTS
DOI: 10.12737/article_5bc89734df8824.31259760
Brief Dictionary of Discussion Terms on Medical Radiology, Radiation Safety and Medical Physics
B.Ya. Narkevich1,2, T.G. Ratner1,2, A.N. Moiseyev2,3
1. N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology, Moscow, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; 2. Association of Medical Physicists of Russia (AMFR), Moscow, Russia; 3. Medskan, Moscow, Russia
B.Ya. Narkevich – Leading Researcher, Dr. Sci. Tech., Prof., President of the AMFR; T.G. Ratner – Leading Researcher, PhD Tech., Member of the Board of AMFR; A.N. Moiseyev – Head of Med. Physics Branch, PhD Phys.-Math., Member of the Board of AMFR
Abstract
A critical analysis of terms and concepts in medical radiology, radiation safety and medical physics in a multilingual dictionary developed within the framework of the international project EMITEL2 and included in the Encyclopedia of Medical Physics, accessible via the Internet. The same analysis was carried out for the three-language dictionary on radiology and radiation physics of the International Electrotechnical Commission, issued as GOST R IEC 60050-881-2008. Based on the results of the analysis, a short English-Russian dictionary of discussion terms on medical physics, radiation protection, radiation therapy, nuclear medicine and radiation diagnostics was developed. Its main difference is the presence in it only of those terms, the literal translation of which from English into Russian either causes lexical difficulties, or is erroneous, or leads to ambiguity of termed concepts. In addition, the dictionary includes those terms, the interpretation of which is debatable for professional specialists and erroneous for non-specialist users.
Key words: medical radiology, radiation safety, medical physics, project EMITEL2, GOST R IEC 60050-881-2008, terminology, short English-Russian dictionary, discussion terms
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- The EMITEL2 project. Available from: www.emitel2.eu/emitwwwsql/dictionary.aspx.
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For citation: Narkevich BYa, Ratner TG, Moiseyev AN. Brief Dictionary of Discussion Terms on Medical Radiology, Radiation Safety and Medical Physics. Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety 2018;63(5):55-64. Russian.
Medial Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2018. Vol. 63. No. 5. P. 68–72
CHRONICLE
DOI: 10.12737/article_5bc897a2103903.64046796
N.K. Shandala1, M.P. Semenova1, V.A. Seregin1, A.V. Grigoryev2, M.K. Sneve3, E. Lazo4
The State of Art in Radiation Safety Regulation at the Nuclear Legacy Site on the Kola Peninsula of the Russian Federation: The Point of View of Russian and Foreign Experts
1. A.I. Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center (FMBC) FMBA, Moscow, Russia; 2. State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, Moscow, Russia; 3. Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority, Østerås, Norway; 4. Nuclear Energy Agency, Paris, France
N.K. Shandala – Dr. Sci. Med., Science and Biophysics Technology Deputy Director General; M.P. Semenova – Senior Researcher; V.A. Seregin – Researcher; A.V. Grigoryev – Head, International Support Projects, Dep. of International Programs and Projects in Radioactive Waste, Spent Nuclear Fuel and Decommissioning of Nuclear and Radiation Hazardous Facilities; M.K. Sneve – Director of Regulatory Programs; E. Lazo – PhD in Health Physics, Deputy Head, Radiological Protection and Human Aspects of Nuclear Safety Division
For citation: Shandala NK, Semenova MP, Seregin VA, Grigoryev AV, Sneve MK, Lazo E. The State of Art in Radiation Safety Regulation at the Nuclear Legacy Site on the Kola Peninsula of the Russian Federation: The Point of View of Russian and Foreign Experts. Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2018;63(5):68-72. Russian.
Medial Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2018. Vol. 63. No. 5. P. 65–67
REVIEW
DOI: 10.12737/article_5bc89759df9677.86485798
Review of the book A.V. Khmelev «Nuclear medicine: physics, equipment, technologies», Moscow, 2018
B.Ya. Narkevich1,2
1. N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology, Moscow, Russia; 2. Association of Medical Physicists of Russia (AMFR), Moscow, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
B.Ya. Narkevich – Leading Researcher, Dr. Sci. Tech., Prof., President of the AMFR
For citation: Narkevich BYa. Review of the book A.V. Khmelev «Nuclear medicine: physics, equipment, technologies», Moscow, 2018. Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2018;63(5): 65-7. Russian.
Medial Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2018. Vol. 63. No. 5. P. 77–88
CHRONICLE
DOI: 10.12737/article_5bc897fcddd2d8.49109633
Results of the 65th Session of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of the Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) (Vienna, 11–14 June, 2018)
V.V. Uyba1, A.V. Akleyev2,3, T.V. Azizova4, V.K. Ivanov5, D.F. Ilyasov6, L.A. Karpikova1, S.M. Kiselev7, A.I. Kryshev8, S.G. Mikheyenko9, S.A. Romanov4, V.Yu. Usoltsev9, S.M. Shinkarev7
1.Federal Medical and Biological Agency, Moscow, Russia; 2.Urals Research Center for Radiation Medicine, Chelyabinsk, Russia; 3. Chelyabinsk State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia ; 4.Southern Urals Biophysics Institute, Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk reg., Russia ; 5. A.F.Tsyb Medical Radiological Research Center, Obninsk, Russia ; 6. Nuclear Safety Institute, Moscow, Russia; 7. A.I.Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of FMBA, Moscow, Russia; 8. Research and Production Association “Typhoon”, Obninsk, Russia; 9. State Atomic Energy Corporation “ROSATOM”, Moscow, Russia
V.V.Uyba – Head of the Medical and Biological Agency, Dr. Sc. Med., Prof.; A.V. Akleyev – Director, Dr. Sc. Med., Prof.; T.V. Azizova – Deputy Director, PhD Med.; V.K. Ivanov – Deputy Director, Dr. Sc. Tech., Prof., Corr. Member of RAS; D.F. Ilyasov – Research Worker, PhD Econ.; L.A. Karpikova – Head of Dep.; S.M. Kiselev – Head of Lab., PhD Biol.; A.I. Kryshev – Head of Lab., Dr. Sc. Biol.; S.G.Mikheenko – Section Head of State Atomic Energy Corporation “ROSATOM”; S.A. Romanov – Director, PhD Biol.; V.Yu. Usoltsev – Chief Specialist; S.M. Shinkarev – Head of Dep., Dr. Sc. Tech.
Abstract
Current paper is devoted to the main outcomes of the 64th UNSCEAR Session which took place in Vienna during 10–14 June 2018. Within the framework of the meetings of the working group and subgroups the documents on the following projects were discussed:
- Biological mechanisms influencing health effects from low-dose radiation exposure.
- Developments since the 2013 UNSCEAR report on the levels and effects of radiation exposure due to the nuclear accident following the great East-Japan earthquake and tsunami: review of 2016 scientific literature including an evaluation of thyroid cancer data in regions affected by the Chernobyl accident.
- Exposure of patients to ionizing radiation.
- Exposure of workers to ionizing radiation.
- Selected evaluations of health effects and of risk inference due to radiation exposure.
- Lung cancer from exposure to radon and to penetrating radiation.
In the course of the discussion, some organizational issues such as preparation of UNSCEAR publications, feasibility of establishing standing working groups, public outreach activities, future research program, report to the General Assembly etc., were considered.
Key words: 65th UNSCEAR Session, low doses, biological effects, epidemiology, medical exposure, occupational exposure
For citation: Uyba VV, Akleyev AV, Azizova TV, Ivanov VK, Ilyasov DF, Karpikova LA, Kiselev SM, Kryshev AI, Mikheyenko SG, Romanov SA, Usoltsev VYu, Shinkarev SM. Results of the 65th Session of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of the Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) (Vienna, 11–14 June, 2018). Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2018;63(5):77-88. Russian.