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. 5. P. 5-10
RADIATION BIOLOGY
E.S. Evstratova, N.M. Kabakova, V.G. Petin
Cell Recovery from Potentially Lethal Damage after Repeated Exposure to Ionizing Radiation
Medical Radiological Research Center, Russian, Obninsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract
Purpose: To study the ability of diploid yeast cells to recover from potentially lethal radiation damage induced by repeated exposure to cells completely recovered from the previous irradiation.
Material and methods: After irradiation of diploid yeast cells with 60Co γ-rays or 239Pu α-particles and their complete recovery from potentially lethal damage, the cells were irradiated repeatedly. The sequence of irradiation-recovery was repeated thirdly. Basing on the mathematical model of recovery, the probability of recovery per unit time and the portion of irreversibly damaged cells were quantitatively evaluated.
Results: It was shown that the part of irreversibly damaged cells increased after repeated exposure. This effect was more expressed after exposure with high LET ionizing radiation. On the contrary, the constant of recovery, characterizing the probability of recovery per unit time, didn’t depend on the number of repeated irradiation, but it slightly decreased after high LET irradiation.
Conclusion: Concluded that the decrease in the cell ability to recover from potentially lethal radiation damage, expressed in a great extent after exposure with high LET ionizing radiation, is mainly explained by the increase in the part of irreversibly damaged cells, while the recovery process itself decreased only slightly.
Key words: cell recovery, ionizing radiation, potentially lethal damage, mathematical model, irreversible component, the probability of recovery, yeast cells, repeated irradiation
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2013. Vol. 58. No. 6. P. 62-64
MEDICAL PRACTICE ISSUE
O.V. Terekhov, V.V. Pasov
A Case Report on Late Radiation Cystitis Complicated with a Large Stone Formed in the Posterior Urethra
Medical Radiological Research Center, Kaluga Region, Obninsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract
This study presents a case report on late radiation cystitis complicated with a large stone that had been formed in the posterior urethra. The peculiarities of this case are the long course of the disease (about one year), the size and location of the calculus and, despite this, self-dependent urination.
Key words: radiation cystitis, radiation-induced damages, urethra stone
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2013. Vol. 58. No. 6. P. 36-43
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
Yu.A. Kurachenko1, N.K. Voznesensky1, Eu.S. Matusevich1, L.A. Lebedev2, V.A. Levchenko3, A.V. Levchenko3
Deep-Seated Neoplasm Neutron-Capture Therapy at the Modified Beam of the MARS Medical Reactor
1. Institute of Nuclear Power Engineering in National Research Nuclear University «MEPhI», Obninsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; 2. Rosatom Nuclear Energy State Corporation, Moscow, Russia; 3. Simulation Systems Ltd, Obninsk, Russia
Abstract
The MARS medical reactor beam is analyzed for neutron capture therapy of deep neoplasm. Necessary conditions of the new approach are based on: a) precise delivery of the pharmaceutical with Boron or Gadolinium to a target and long-time confinement it, and b) using a high-energy & high fluence rate neutron beam, which provides neutron deep penetration. Results of the numerical experiment for administered dose delivery to a deep seated target for the modified MARS reactor beam are presented. It is shown, that new quality of results is quite achievable in acceptable time of an exposure.
Key words: NCT new concept, precise B/Gd delivery, high-energy neutron beam, removal block optimization, Gd-capture therapy, MARS reactor beam modification
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2013. Vol. 58. No. 6. P. 44-61
REVIEW
Y.G. Grigoriev1,2, A.P. Birukov1
Mobile Communications and Public Health: a Risk Assessment of the Man-Caused Electromagnetic Ecological Pollution on Environmental Quality
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. , This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; 2. Scientific Advisory Committee of the World Health Organization “EMF and Health”
Abstract
Rapid development of mobile communications changed the terms of public exposure fundamentally in recent years and has become a major factor in shaping the conditions for the public exposure to radio waves. Population exposure with mobile phone electromagnetic fields is a new physical factor that has no analogues in the nature. The article reviews and analyzes the results of experimental, clinical and epidemiological studies of the brain reactions on irradiation of non-thermal electromagnetic field of radio frequency levels.
Key words: electromagnetic field, cell phone, children, adolescents, risk of exposure, immediate and long-term effects, recommendations
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2013. Vol. 58. No. 6. P. 30-35
RADIATION MEDICINE
V.Yu. Soloviev, A.E. Baranov, T.M. Khamidulin, N.V. Zinovieva
Human Acute Radiation Injuries Database. Report 3. Forecasting Specifics of Postradiation Peripheral Blood Granulocyte Concentration Dynamics of Bone Marrow Syndrome, Complicated by Radiation Burns and also of Nonuniform Body Irradiation
Burnazyan 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: Study of the postradiation peripheral blood neutrophils concentration dynamics of bone marrow syndrome complicated by the radiation burns of the skin and nonuniform body irradiation.
Material and methods: The object of research is information obtained from laboratory analyzes of the peripheral blood granulocyte concentration of 128 victims of the Chernobyl accident of 1986 (of which 54 had significant radiation skin burns), contained in Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center human acute radiation injuries database.
Results: Human postradiation peripheral blood neutrophils concentration dynamics profile, dependent on the dose of external relatively uniform gamma rays irradiation has been constructed. It was shown, in particular, that the development of agranulocytosis (<0.5×109 cl/l) occurs at doses greater than 1.2 Gy and is more pronounced (<0.1×109 cl/l) at doses greater than 2.0 Gy. Agranulocytosis period duration dose–dependence is weak in the dose range of 2 to 6 Gy and is on average 10–13 days for patients with radiation skin burns and 12–15 days for patients without them and has some trend toward an increase with increasing dose in both groups. It was shown on a hypothetical example that the use of local shielding of the human body (mainly in the sacrum and pelvis area) as physical protection in sublethal dose range can substantially reduce radiation injuries and lead to a “softer” acute period of bone marrow syndrome including complete elimination of the agranulocytosis period.
Key words: ionizing radiation, acute radiation sickness, peripherical blood, data base