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. 6. P. 14-24
RADIATION SAFETY
V.F. Stepanenko1, M. Hoshi2, M.Yu. Orlov1, D.V. Dubov1, А.Ф. Цыб1
Environmental and Food Products Contamination by Radionuclides and Doses of Irradiation to Population Following Radiation Accident on Fukushima-1 NPP: Part 1. Environmental Contamination
1. Medical Radiological Research Center, Obninsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; 2. Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
CONTENT
Introduction
Causes and evolution of the accident
Sequence of main events and scale of the accident
Radioactive contamination of environment
Conclusion
List of references
Key words: radiation accident, Fukushima-1, contamination by radionuclides
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2013. Vol. 58. No. 6. P. 5-13
RADIATION SAFETY
R.M. Alexakhin1, V.G. Sychev2
Radioecological Aspects of Agricultural Remediation Following the Accident at the Fukushima Daichi NPP
1. All-Russian Institute of Agricultural Radiology and Agroecology of RAAS, Obninsk, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; 2. D.N. Pryanishnikov All-Russian Research Institute of Agriculture and Soil Science, Moscow, Russia
Abstract
The accident at the Fukushima Daichi NPP (FDNPP) in Japan on 11 March 2011 has resulted in the extensive areas’ contamination, considerable part of which is occupied by agricultural and forested lands. The territories to be remediated cover the areas of 500 km2 (exposure doses above 20 mSv/year) and 1300 km2 (5–20 mSv/year). In the range of countermeasures of great importance are protective measures in agriculture which is connected with the essential role of contaminated agricultural products consumption, as a source of human irradiation, and social-psychological significance of the products’ decontamination where the concentrations of radioactive substances exceed the permitted levels.
The major exposure pathways for the population on the affected territory are: external irradiation, inhalation and internal irradiation (radionuclide uptake with food and drinking water). The main doseforming radionuclides in the accidental area are: 131I and 137Cs. The role of the dietary source is defined by the diet composition and time after radionuclide fallout. The importance of this source of exposure, in comparison with external irradiation, is an increasing with the distance from the FDNPP. In case of the thyroid gland irradiation the dietary pathway of 131I transfer is dominating.
The main option when mitigating consequences of the FDNPP accident was decontamination (cleanup) of soils (soil-plant cover) which is achieved by removal of the top most affected horizon (up to 4–5 cm). Since the territory to be remediated is large, this rehabilitation measure produces great amounts of radioactive wastes. Their estimated amounts may reach volumes of solid domestic waste produced annually in Japan. The above main principle of mitigating consequences of the accident in Japan differs significantly from the approaches to solving similar tasks after the Kyshtym and Chernobyl disasters where the main options were retargeting of the agricultural branches on farmland, high chemicalization, use of special sorbents in animal feeding and area allocation for farming branches based on 137Cs contamination density, as well as temporary exclusion of the most affected lands from the use.
Various protective agricultural measures have been studied (soil washing, application of potassium fertilizers, radical amelioration of meadow-pasture lands, etc.). Some of these measures have been found to be ineffective (phytoremediation, removal of forest litter, plant washing).
A comprehensive set of measures in agriculture in the accidental region has been recognized as the key way for the affected area remediation.
Key words: accident at the Fukushima-1 NPP, agricultural production, area decontamination, countermeasures, population, exposure
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2014. Vol. 59. No. 1. P. 50-56
DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLODGY
S.V. Matkevich1, V.I. Doga1, E.A. Ionova1, V.I. Golubchikov1, P.S. Kizlasov1, D.A. Mazurenko2, E.V. Bernikov2
Modern Aspects of Urethral Stricture Diagnostics
1. Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of FMBA, Moscow, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; 2. Medical and Rehabilitation Center, Ministry of Health, Moscow, Russia
ABSTRACT
To determine the treatment method of urethral strictures the most important is location, length, number of strictures, as well as the etiology of the disease. Currently, there are several methods to diagnose urethral strictures. The most common ways to visualize the urethra are retrograde and voiding urethracystography. It is known that urethrogrphy conducted in an oblique projection may lead to underestimation of the true extent of bulbo-membranous urethra stricture. The best way to visualize proximal urethra is voiding urethrography allowed to define the proximal border of the restriction and its functional significance. Ultrasonography allows to identify the length of bulbar urethra stricture with greater precision. CT and MRI play an important but limited role in the diagnosis of urethral stricture, as their information content does not exceed a simple and affordable techniques. The significance of these methods is reduced with the diagnosis of pelvic fracture, revealing the displacement of the prostate and the presence of intrapelvic hematoma in patients with post-traumatic urethral injury. At all times it is better to define the method of treatment in the preoperative phase, rather than to take emergency decision during the operation. The review deals with the definition of the diagnostic value of different methods.
Key words: urethral stricture, diagnostics, various methods
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2014. Vol. 59. No. 1. P. 57-64
RADIATION THERAPY
O.P. Trofimova, I.Y. Kubasova, I.V. Kolyadina, S.I. Tkachev, N.P. Shipilina, V.A. Khajlenko, A.A. Maklakova, I.M. Lebedenko
Experience of Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation after Organ-Preserving Surgery in Patients with Early Breast Cancer in Brcc
Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
ABSTRACT
Purpose: To increase the radiation therapy efficacy in breast cancer patients.
Material and methods: The study included 53 patients with verified breast cancer in stages T1–2N0–micM0 treated in 2008–2013. The median age of the patients was 65 years. Median follow-up study for 30 months was conducted. The patients were undergone to organ-preserving treatment, including radical resection followed with accelerated partial radiation therapy. This method of radiation therapy was used in patients who were carefully selected accordingly to strict criteria. For a clear visualization and adequately determine the volume of the tissue irradiated in 92 % of patients the clipping of bed removed tumor was held using metal clips. All patients had conformal radiation therapy: 2,5 Gy twice a day, daily dose of 5 Gy, (for16 days) summary dose 40 Gy. The criteria of patients selecting to this method of radiation therapy and results of randomized controlled trials are described.
Results: Within a median follow-up study for 30 months, no local and loco-regional recurrences, as well as distant metastases were observed.
Conclusion: Proposed method of accelerated partial breast irradiation of patients with early breast cancer carefully selected shows the results comparable with those of the entire remaining breast exposure.
Key words: radiotherapy, breast cancer, local recurrens, accelerated partial irradiation
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2014. Vol. 59. No. 1. P. 43-49
RADIATION EPIDEMIOLOGY
A.R. Tukov, A.P. Birukov, I.L. Shafransky
Accounting for the Additional Components of Radiation Doses in Radiation-Epidemiological Studies of Persons Exposed to Ionizing Radiation
Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of FMBA, Moscow, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
ABSTRACT
Purpose: Estimation of the risk of cancer using doses of different types of radiation.
Material and methods: The study carried out with using the information from database of the NPP workers participated in recovery operations at the Chernobyl. For the risk calculation the dose of professional exposure and the dose received during operations in 30 km zone were used.
Results: It is shown that using only part of the total radiation dose in cancer risk estimation results into different inaccuracies.
Conclusion: For the correct cancer risk estimation the total radiation dose should be used only.
Key words: risk of cancer, dose of different types of irradiation, the total dose