Radiation Safety Resources

Diagnostic Imaging

Duke

• Radiation Risk Estimates from Diagnostic Imaging

X-Ray Risk

• Risk Calculator

Environmental Exposure

• Radon Exposure Calculator
• Los Alamos Annual Radiation Dose Calculator

Radioisotopes and Radiation Measurement

RadProCalculator.com (Ray McGinnis)

• Radioactivity Conversions
• Gamma Emitter Point Source Dose-Rate <–to–> Activity and Shielding Calculations (In Air)
• Beta Emitter Dose-Rate <—-> Activity Calculations (In Air)
• Radioisotope Decay Calculations
• ALARA Calculations (Time, Distance, Shielding)
• Radiation Activity Conversions
• Inverse Square Law Calculator
• Half-Life Calculator

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

• Dosimetry and Radiation Medical Physics (DRMP)
• Phase-Space Database for External Beam Radiotherapy
• Therapeutic Medical Radioisotope Production
• Diagnostic Medical Radioisotope Production
• Radiation Protection of Patients (RPOP)

Communicating Risk

How to Understand and Communicate Radiation Risk (Image Wisely, US)

Useful to Explore

The Society for Radiological Protection (UK)

Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFFRI, US)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US)

RADAR (RAdiation Dose Assessment Resource)

• U.S. Site
• European Site

Idaho State University RSO Toolbox