Skip to main content

Radiation Dose Reconstruction for Epidemiologic Uses (1995) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:

Executive Summary
Pages 1-3

The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.


From page 1...
... Dose reconstructions must meet two criteria: They must withstand scientific scrutiny, and they must satisfy public concern. The Committee on an Assessment of CDC Radiation Studies was convened to provide scientific advice to the National Center for Environmental Health and Injury Control of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Read the entire page →
From page 2...
... The committee made two recommendations: · Scoping studies should be based on realistic assumptions about the dose distribution, the population size, and the expected harm to public health resulting from a radiation release. · Full-fledged dose reconstruction and epidemiologic studies should be proposed only when scoping studies show that rigorous studies are possible, given the probable dose distribution and size of the exposed population.
Read the entire page →
From page 3...
... Finally, the committee recommends that, to arrive at a credible and cost-effective decision-making process for identifying and prioritizing sites for study, the criteria used to proceed from a scoping study to a comprehensive dose reconstruction study should be adopted before the scoping study begins.
Read the entire page →

Key Terms

  • reconstruction studies
  • epidemiologic studies
  • scoping studies
  • dose reconstructions
  • dose distribution

  • reconstruction study
  • scoping study
  • withstand scientific
  • cdc radiation
  • radiation release

  • performed interactively
  • expected harm
  • population size
  • data relating
  • inform decisions

  • environmental pathways
  • pertinent data
  • principles useful
  • dosimetric information
  • probable dose

  • rigorous studies
  • scientists involved
  • specified carefully
  • study begins
  • radiation studies

  • undertaking radiation
  • establish priorities
  • provide scientific
  • realistic assumptions
  • radiation dose


    • This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
    More information on Chapter Skim is available.