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. 2014. Vol. 59. No. 4. P. 67-72
REVIEW
S.I. Ivanov1, S.V. Loginova1, N.A. Akopova1, S.E. Okhrimenko1, K.N. Nurlybaev2
Problems of Eye Lens Dosimetry
1. Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Moscow, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; 2. NPP “Doza”, Zelenograd, Moscow region, Russia.
ABSTRACT
In 2012, in its Basic Safety Standards for Radiation Protection, IAEA has lowered the annual dose limit for the eye lens from 150 mSv down to 20 mSv. The preceding ICRP Statement on lowering the dose limit was substantiated by results of studies of eye lens doses received by surgeons who use fluoroscopy during operations. In this paper we publish experimental data on doses to the eye lens of surgeons with and without shielding. Further, we analyze the problems that were evoked by the new dose limit and have to be addressed by radiation hygiene specialists, taking into account that up to date the operational quantity, namely the directional dose equivalent Н’(3, Ω), needed to determine the dose to the eye lens during occupational radiation monitoring, is not included in regulations in the Russian Federation.
CONTENT
Introduction
Effects of ionizing radiation on the eye lens
Rationale for a new dose limit for the eye lens
Monitoring of doses to the eye lens
Assessment of doses to the eye lens in the course of routine monitoring
Routine monitoring using personal dosimeters
Typical values of equivalent dose to the eye lens in interventional radiology
Conclusion
Key words: dose limit for the eye lens, weakly penetrating radiation types, directional dose equivalent Н’(3, Ω), interventional radiology
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2014. Vol. 59. No. 4. P. 58-66
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
N.S. Bozhko1, S.U. Antropov1, S.V. Korostin1, G.E. Kodina2, A.O. Malysheva2
Accuracy of Measurements of Radiochemical Purity of Radiopharmaceuticals with Chromatogramm Scanner
1. STC Amplituda Ltd, Mendeleevo, Moscow region, 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
ABSTRACT
Purpose: Determination of the main sources of uncertainty occurred during measurements of radiopharmaceutical’s radiochemical purity. Calculate acceptable uncertainty levels on basis of specific normalization and method features.
Material and methods: Several samples of different radiopharmaceuticals are scanned with Gamma-Scan 01A chromatogram-scanner. Obtained chromatograms are processed for calculations of radiochemical purity and radiochemical impurities. Uncertainty budget and contribution of counting uncertainty is defined.
Results: Main guidelines for performing suitable radiochemical purity measurements and proper results interpretation are given and could be used in quality control. Required accuracy characteristics of measuring equipment are defined.
Key words: radiopharmaceuticals, radiochemical purity, gamma-chromatography, measurement uncertainly
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2014. Vol. 59. No. 4. P. 48-52
DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLODGY
N.I. Lebedev1, M.V. Osipov2, E.P. Fomin1
An Approach to Reduce the Radiation Dose Resulted from Multislice CT of the Abdomen
1. Central Medical-Sanitary Department No. 71 of FMBA RF, Ozersk, Russia; 2. Southern Urals Biophysics Institute FMBA RF, Ozersk, Russia. Е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
ABSTRACT
Purpose: To understand whether an exception of non-enhanced phase in multislice computed tomography of the abdomen with bolus contrast enhancement affects the diagnostic results, and to determine how much it reduces the radiation dose to the patient.
Material and methods: During a two-year period since the commissioning of the multislice CT Bright Speed Elite from General Electric in the department of X-ray diagnostics and therapy of Central Medical-Sanitary Unit-71, more than 5,000 CT studies were conducted. About 10 % of these studies are the contrast-enhanced abdominal MSCT.
Results: The analysis of the data showed that the exclusion of non-enhanced phase in the abdominal CT allows up to 30 % lower the dose to the patient, and it does not cause loss of diagnostic information.
Conclusion: The MSCT studies of the abdomen with bolus contrast enhancement without using the non-enhanced phase does not degrade the quality of the diagnostic information and allows to reduce the radiation dose to the patient.
Key words: multislice CT, abdomen, contrast, non-enhanced, radiation dose
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2014. Vol. 59. No. 4. P. 53-57
RADIATION THERAPY
O.K. Kurpeshev, V.V. Pasov, A.K. Kurpesheva
Treatment of Late Radiation Damage Using Local Radio-Frequency Hyperthermia
Medical Radiological Research Center, Obninsk, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
ABSTRACT
Local hyperthermia was delivered to 103 patients with late radiation-induced tissue and organs injury. The treatment consisted of 6–12 sessions with 1–2 day interval between them (3–5 times a week). Repeated local hyperthermia cycles were delivered in 3–12 months. Outcome of treatment for fibrosis of skin and subcutaneous adipose tissue was assessed by changing skin pigmentation and fibrotic tissue density. In patients with fibrosis of pelvic organs the outcome was assessed by clearance rate of contrast agent from the urinary tract. Treatment effects for pulmonary fibrosis and lymphedema were assessed by the dynamics of pulmonary function and change in an extremity circumference, respectively.
The treatment resulted in significant (on average, 1.7-fold) reduction of fibrosis foci density in soft tissue examined by palpation and by ultrasound densitometry. In patients, who underwent Dimexide applications, the density of fibrotic tissue reduced by 1.2- fold. In patients with pulmonary fibrosis the treatment resulted in the increase in pulmonary ventilation by 5 % to 30 %, as compared to the function prior to the treatment. Local hyperthermia treatment for the late radiation-induced cystitis resulted in attenuation of pelvic pain (in the bladder) and the rate of uresiesthesia. Patients, who underwent the treatment for pelvic fibrosis combined with ureterostenosis, improvement of the urine passage was found. In one third of patients with edema of extremities its circumference reduced by more than 30 % after the treatment, in half of patients the reduction was less than 30 %.
Key words: late radiation damage, treatment, radio-frequency hyperthermia
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2014. Vol. 59. No. 4. P. 41-47
RADIATION EPIDEMIOLOGY
Y.N. Korystov
Factors Distorting the Estimation of the Carcinogenic Risk from Low Radiation Doses, as Determined with Epidemiological Data
Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics of RAS, Pushchino, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
ABSTRACT
- Introduction
- Dependence of cancer mortality estimated on the range of averaging epidemiologic data by age, and on age distribution of persons in cohorts
- Dependence of estimated cancer mortality on averaging of effects of several close doses
- Data on high-level background radiation obtained without dose averaging for cohorts similar in age distribution
- Conclusion
Key words: ionizing radiation, low doses, radiation-induced tumors, carcinogenic risk, mortality, distorting factors