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This Page:

• Introduction to Radiation
• Radiation and Health Physics
• Medical Physics
• Nuclear Energy
• Ionising Radiation
• Non-Ionising Radiation
• Agencies and Organizations
• Professional Associations
• Journals (with abstracts available)
• General Radiation & Health Resources
• Other Scientific Resources

Introduction to Radiation

• Nuclear science and technology and how it influences your life (American Nuclear Society)
• Radiation and Life (Eric J Hall, Columbia University)
• Radiation Reassessed - The Why Files (US National Institute for Science Education)

Radiation and Health Physics

• Chernobyl, Ten Years On, Radiological and Health Impact An appraisal by the NEA Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health. Published November 1995 by NEA/OECD, Paris. This file contains the complete text of the 112 page report including diagrams. The NEA site contains the full text of many of their reports.
• The Office of Radiation, Chemical & Biological Safety (Michigan State University)
• Radiation Effects Research Foundation (Japan): The binational organization dedicated to the discovery, application, and dissemination of knowledge about health effects in the survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• Report on Search for Human Radiation Experiment Records 1944 - 1994 (DoE, June 1997)
• Validity of the Linear No Threshold Theory of Radiation Carcinogenesis at Low Doses.

Medical Physics

• BEAM - Monte Carlo Simulation System for modelling radiotherapy sources
• Department of Medical Radiations Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
• Medical Physics Home Pages (AAPM): General Medical Physics / Radiology / Nuclear Medicine & PET / Radiation Therapy / Health Physics / Dosimetry Calibration / Computer Topics / Standards.
• OMEGA - BEAM Workshops

Medical Imaging

• Centre of Medical Imaging Research, University of Leeds
• The Whole Brain Atlas
• The Visible Human Project

Nuclear Medicine

• Let's Play PET: Explore all aspects of PET, from the principles of cyclotron and tomograph operation to the clinical application of PET to the fields of cardiology, neurology and oncology (UCLA School of Medicine, Crump Institute for Biological Imaging).

Radiology

• BrighamRAD (US) - Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. General Information (Patient care, Research, Training) / Department Information / Educational Resources / News / Links.
• British Institute of Radiology (UK)
• Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University (US)
• The Medical Radiography Home Page
• The Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Radiologists
• Society of Nuclear Medicine (US)
• The University of Washington Radiology Webserver (US) Case of the Week / Radiology Teaching Files / Other Learning Materials / Other Information.

Nuclear Energy

• Environment Australia - The Supervising Scientist Group:The Supervising Scientist Group (SSG), is part of Environment Australia, and is responsible for environmental oversight of uranium mining activities in the Alligator Rivers Region of the Northern Territory of Australia.
• Todd's Atomic Homepage: Resources for "all things nuclear" (Todd Postma, Berkeley CA). French Nuclear Testing Sites / Nuclear Energy / Nuclear Engineering / Nuclear Computing / Nuclear Data / Nuclear Utilities and Reactor Information / Nuclear Weapons / Government Laboratories and Departments / Technical Radiation Impact Information / Nuclear Physics / Dissenting Opinions / Periodic Tables.
• Uranium Information Centre (Melbourne, Australia)
• The Virtual Nuclear Tourist: Nuclear power plant design and operation (Joseph Gonyeau).

Ionising Radiation

• Electron Gamma Shower (EGS) Home Page
• NRC Bibliography of EGS Related Papers

Measurement Standards

• Ionizing Radiation Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• NRC Activities and Publications 1995-1997
• Online Papers, NRC (Canada) National Ionizing Radiation Measurement Standards Group.
• University of Wisconsin Radiation Calibration Laboratory

Non-Ionising Radiation

Powerlines, UV etc

• EMF-Link
• ESAA EMF Web Site
• International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection
• New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Nonionizing Radiation Section
• NIOSH EMF Fact Sheet
• Powerlines and Cancer FAQ (John Moulder).
• Science Review Symposium: Epidemiological Research Findings
• Science Review Symposium: In Vivo Laboratory Findings
• Static EM Fields and Cancer (John Moulder).
• Victorian Ozone Monitoring Network

Mobile Phones

• International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection - provides global focus for non-ionizing radiation protection with general and specific information about ICNIRP and its activities.
• Federal Communications Commission - U.S.A. - information on human exposure to radio frequency fields from cellular and PCS radio transmitters.
• FAQs: Cell Phone Antennas & Health - (John Moulder). - this FAQ addresses the issue of whether base station transmitter/antennas for cellular phones, PCS phones, and other types of portable transceivers are a risk to human health.
• The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) - the national industry body for the mobile telecommunications industry in Australia.
• ABC Radio National - Health Report Transcript - three Australian scientists discuss the matter.
• Report of the Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones “Mobile Phones and Health” (the Stewart Report)
• Swedish Radiation Protection Institute (SSI) Information Sheet “Radiation from mobile telephony base stations”
• Australian Communications Authority - Regulation of Limits
• J. E. Moulder, et al “Cell Phones and Cancer: What Is the Evidence for a Connection?”
• K. R. Foster and J. E. Moulder “Are mobile phones safe?”
• FDA “Consumer Update on Mobile Phones”
• UK Government Department of Health
• UK Government Health Protection Agency - Electromagnetic Fields
• World Health Organisation - EME Program
• Explanation of Cellular Phone Technology
• Mobile telephones; an evaluation of health effects

Agencies and Organizations

Metrology & Measurement Standards

• CSIRO Div. of Telecommun. & Industrial Physics, National Measurement Laboratory
• International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Physics Laboratory, USA
• National Physical Laboratory (NPL), UK, Ionising Radiation and Acoustics
• NPL: Pointers to Physics/Metrology resources
• NRC's Links to other National Metrology Laboratories & Standardising Organisations

Quality Assurance Standards

• National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA)
• Standards Australia
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Radiation & Nuclear Energy

• Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation (ANSTO) (AU)
• Emergency Management Australia (AU)
• International Atomic Energy Agency
• Radioactive Waste Management in Australia, Department of Education, Science and Training, Australian (AU)
• Health and Safety Executive - Nuclear Safety Directorate (NSD) (UK) :NSD seeks to keep up and improve safety standards for work with ionising radiations through its licensing powers by assessing safety cases and inspecting sites for licence compliance.
• Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA (FR) :The mission of the NEA is to assist its Member countries in maintaining and further developing, through international co-operation, the scientific, technological and legal bases required for the safe, environmentally friendly and economical use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
• Radioactive Waste Links
• United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) (UK) :The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is responsible for the decommissioning of its nuclear reactors and other nuclear liabilities used for the UK nuclear energy R&D program.
• US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) (US) :The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) ensureS adequate protection of the public health and safety, the common defence and security, and the environment in the use of nuclear materials in the United States.

Radiation Protection

• Radiation Safety Program, Department of Human Services, Victoria
• Radiation Control, Department of Health and Human Services, Tasmania
• Radiation Health, Public Health Services, Queensland
• Radiation Health Section, Health Department of WA
• Radiation Control, Environment Protection Authority, NSW
• International Commission on Radiological Protection
• Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire (IRSN) (FR)
• Health Protection Agency (UK) - Radiation Protection Division (UK)
• National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP) (US)
• National Radiation Laboratory (New Zealand) (NZ)

Health

• Australian Department of Health and Ageing
• US - Environmental Protection AgencyThe mission of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment (air, water, and land) upon which life depends.
• World Health Organization(WHO) - Western Pacific Region
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• US National Institute of Health (NIH)

Uranium Mining

• Environment Australia - The Supervising Scientist Group The Supervising Scientist Group (SSG), is part of Environment Australia, and is responsible for environmental oversight of uranium mining activities in the Alligator Rivers Region of the Northern Territory of Australia.

Professional Associations

• Australasian Radiation Protection Society Inc.
• Australian and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine
• The Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Radiologists
• American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) (US)
• American Institute of Physics (US)
• American Nuclear Society (US)
• American Physical Society (US)
• European Physical Society (US)
• Health Physics Society (US)
• Institute of Physics (UK)
• International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA)

Journals (with abstracts available)

• Annals of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP)
• eBulletin (NRPB) (UK)

General Radiation & Health Resources

• Radiation Related Information: / Environmental Information / American Academy of Health Physics/Americam Board of Health Physics / Medical Uses/ Radiation safety Office / Health Physics Society

Other Scientific Resources

Medicine & Biology

• HealthInsite
• Medical Online
• Medical Matrix - Ranked, peer-reviewed clinical medicine resources
• MedWeb: Biomedical Resources

Cancer

• Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria
• Anti-Cancer Foundation of South Australia
• Australian Cancer Society
• Cancer Council of Tasmania
• NSW Cancer Council
• Queensland Cancer Fund
• Western Australia Cancer Council
• CancerNet (US National Cancer Institute)
• Cancer Web
• OncoLink (University of Pennsylvania)

Genetics

• KUMC Genetics Education Center: Human genetics and the human genome project.
• The Genome Database (Johns Hopkins University)

Physics

• TIPTOP: Pilot to Physics
• Physics Servers and Services

Statistics & Epidemiology

• Science Without Sense: The Risky Business of Public Health Research (Steven J. Milloy)
• A Guide to the Web for Statisticians (University of Queensland)
• StatLib (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI) Centre for Statistics (University of Glasgow)

History of Science

• Australian Science Archives Project
• History of Science, Technology and Medicine (World-Wide Web Virtual Library)

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