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
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2013. Vol. 58. No. 4. P. 23–33
RADIATION SAFETY
A.A. Oudalova1, S.A. Geras’kin1, R.M. Alexakhin1, S.M. Kiselev2
Current Approach to Environment Radiation Impact Assessment
1. All-Russian Institute of Agricultural Radiology and Agroecology RAAS, Obninsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; 2. Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of FMBA, Moscow,Russia
Contents
- Introduction
- Anthropocentric and ecocentric approaches to radiation impact assessment
- Concept of reference animals and plants
- Criteria of radiation impact on biota
- No-effect exposure levels for biota
- Approaches for the environment radiation risk assessment
- Conclusion
Key words: radionuclides, biota, anthropocentric and ecocentric approaches, reference species, no-effect radiation levels, risk
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2013. Vol. 58. No. 4. P. 17–22
RADIATION SAFETY
K.V. Kotenko1, A.Yu. Bushmanov1, I.E. Tyurin2, V.A. Kostylev3, S.I. Tkachev4, B.I. Dolgushin4, A.V. Boyko5, B.Ja. Narkevich3,4
To the Question about Unhealthy Condition of Work in Radiological Departments of Medical Enterprises
1. Burnazyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of FMBA, Moscow, Russia; 2. Russian Medical Academy of Postdiploma Education, Moscow, Russia; 3. Association of Medical Physics in Russia, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; 4. N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center of RAMS, Moscow, Russia; 5. P.A. Herzen Moscow Research Oncological Institute, Moscow, Russia
Abstract
The problem of unhealthy condition of work in radiological departments of medical institutions of Russia has been considered. Specific examples of incorrect interpretation of this notion for the preferential age pensions setting for workers of the radiotherapy, x-ray diagnostics and nuclear medicine departments is presented. The analysis of the causes of unjustified denial of preferential pensions is accomplished. It is shown that all of them are caused by mistaken classification of personnel in the various categories in accordance with current radiation safety standards. To solve this problem it is proposed to classify not the personnel, but the working place. Such an approach complies with the recommendations of the ICRP and IAEA for the radiation protection of workers. In accordance with the purpose of preferential pensions should be linked with performance of official duties in the controlled or (and) monitored areas.
Key words: medical radiology, radiation therapy, diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine, unhealthy condition of work, occupational irradiation, preferential pension
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2013. Vol. 58. No. 5. P. 62-72
CHRONICLE
M.Ph. Kiselev1, T.V. Azizova2, A.V. Akleyev3, R.M. Aleksakhin4, V.K. Ivanov5, A.N. Koterov6, I.I. Kryshev7, B.K. Lobach8, O.A. Pavlovsky9, S.A. Romanov2, A.V. Sazhin6, S.M. Shinkarev6
On the 60th Session of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR). Vienna, 27–31 May 2013
1. Federal Medical-Biological Agency of Russia (FMBA of Russia), Moscow, Russia; 2. Southern Urals Biophysics Institute, Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia; 3. Urals Research Center of Radiation Medicine, Chelyabinsk, Russia; 4. Russian Institute of Agricultural Radiology and Agroecology, Obninsk, Russia; 5. Medical Radiological Research Centre, Obninsk, Russia; 6. Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of FMBA of Russia, Moscow, Russia; 7. Research & Production Association “Typhoon”, Obninsk, Russia; 8. Nuclear Energy State Corporation “Rosatom”, Moscow, Russia; 9. Nuclear Safety Institute, Moscow, Russia
CONTENTS
Introduction
Discussion of scientific reports on seven projects:
Report R.695 “Levels and effects of radiation exposure due to the nuclear accident after the 2011 great east-Japan earthquake and tsunami”
Report R.696 “Effects of radiation exposure on children”
Report R.697 “Methodology for estimating human exposures due to radioactive discharges”
Report R.698 “Radiation exposures from electricity generation”
Report R.699 “Biological effects of selected internal emitters”
Report R.700 “Epidemiology of low-dose-rate exposures of the public to natural and artificial environmental sources of radiation”
Report R.700 “Development of an evaluation of medical exposures”
Key words: 60th session of UNSCEAR, accident at the nuclear power plant “Fukushima-1”, doses to the public, doses to the workers, effects of radiation exposure on children, radiation exposures from electricity generation, radioactive releases and discharges, epidemiology of low doses and low dose rate of ionizing radiation
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2013. Vol. 58. No. 4. P. 5-16
RADIATION SAFETY
E.M. Melikhova, E.M. Byrkina, Y.A. Pershina
On the Issue of Certain Mechanisms of Social Amplification of Risk in Media Coverage of the Fukushima NPP Nuclear Accident
Nuclear Safety Institute of the RAS, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract
Purpose: To analyze the public perception of radiation risk and reveal mechanisms of social amplification of risk in Fukushima accident media coverage in Russia.
Material and methods: 1. An all-Russian public opinion poll about radiological consequences of Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear accidents. The poll was conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation within the framework of weekly survey FOMnibus in October 2012.The questions were designed by IBRAE RAS specialists. 2. A content analysis of articles concerning the Fukushima NPP nuclear accident in two national newspapers: “Izvestiya” and “Komsomolskaya Pravda” from 11.03.2011 to 11.05.2011.
Results: More than 50 % of respondents believed that radiation from Fukushima resulted in a lot of deaths (thousands, hundreds of thousands, more than a million). Distribution of answers considering the death toll due to Fukushima’s radiation was similar to distribution of answers for the same question about Chernobyl. This distribution virtually doesn’t correlate with respondent’s age, education, income, residence or occupation.
Media coverage of the nuclear accident at the Fukushima NPP in Russian national newspapers was as extensive as the coverage of the natural disaster in Japan which killed more than 15 thousand people. Every third article about Fukushima also mentioned Chernobyl. Some other mechanisms of risk amplification were noticed as well: using of frightening words in article’s headlines, intentional and unintentional projecting of consequences of the natural disaster on the radiation accident, presence of unclear and contradictory comments on radiation hazard for Japan. The last mechanism was mainly due to the immanent problem of radiation safety standards in low dose range.
Conclusion: Development of Fukushima accident image as a global scale disaster was quite a natural phenomenon. Public prejudice against nuclear technology motivated increased media attention towards the accident. During two first weeks there was no clear and coordinated signal on international level stating that radiological consequences for Japan would be insignificant. This provided ample breeding ground for agitation on the issue in mass media. As a result, negative transfer of Chernobyl image on Fukushima has occurred. Until the key problems of timely and consistent public information on international level are not solved, we are unlikely to expect a different sequence of such accidents in future.
Key words: media content analysis, public opinion poll, Fukushima nuclear accident, risk perception, mechanisms of social amplification of risk, informing on radiation risk
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2013. Vol. 58. No. 5. P. 54-58
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
D.K. Fomin, O.O. Lyugiy, O.B. Tararuchina
Experience of SPECT/CT Research in the Evaluation of Disease Prevalence in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer and Planning Further Tactics of Treatment
Russian Scientific Center of Roentgenology and Radiology. Moscow, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract
Purpose: To study the diagnostic efficiency of SPEД/CT in disease prevalence assessment in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer and planning further tactics of treatment.
Material and methods: 20 patients have been examined. All of them had been operated and have being treated with 131I. 18 patients suffered with papillary cancer and 2 patients suffered with follicular thyroid cancer. The age of patients varied from 20 to 73, the group examined consisted of 5 men and 15 women. The research has been carried out on composite SPEД/CT Philips Precedence system.
Results: The results of SPEД/CT and planar scintiscanning revealed full coincidence in 11 cases. There were no such coincidence in other 9 cases.
Conclusion: Carrying out controlling radionuclide examination after 131I treatment is absolutely obliged. It helps in disease prevalence assessment and chose adequate treatment tactics. Carrying out combined SPECT/CT examination leads to modification of treatment in 38 % of patients.
Key words: combined SPECT/CT, differentiated thyroid cancer, whole body planar scintygraphy with 131I