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Operational health physics.

Kenneth L Miller1

  • 1Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA 17033, USA. kmiller@psu.edu

Health Physics
|December 15, 2004
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

This review categorizes operational health physics research over 15 years into 17 key areas. It highlights current trends and problem-solving in radiation safety and health physics practices.

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Area of Science:

  • Health Physics
  • Radiation Safety

Background:

  • Operational health physics literature published over the last 15 years was reviewed.
  • Seventeen general categories were identified for organizing the published topics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To categorize and review the breadth of operational health physics topics.
  • To provide a sampling of current research and problem-solving in the field.

Main Methods:

  • A comprehensive review of operational health physics papers.
  • Categorization of published topics into 17 distinct areas.
  • Sampling of key papers to illustrate the scope of operational health physics concerns.

Main Results:

  • Seventeen major categories of operational health physics were identified.

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  • These include academic research, computer applications, decontamination, dosimetry, emergency response, environmental and medical health physics, industrial operations, new procedures, non-ionizing radiation, radiation measurements, waste disposal, radon control, risk communication, shielding, staffing, and orphan sources.
  • Specialty areas like power reactor, accelerator, and governmental health physics are integrated into these broader topics.

    • Conclusions:

    • The review demonstrates a wide variety of concerns and active areas of research for operational health physicists.
    • Current efforts focus on refining procedures and developing solutions to ongoing challenges in radiation safety.