Ionizing radiation

school to get a bachelor degree, 4 years college education, 2 years of Pre-pharmacy and one year of internship. And also they have to pass a NAPLEX test. And that why pharmacist paid more salary than pharmacy technician. Nuclear Medicine is was a radiation spontaneously medicine used to diagnose and treat disease. It technologist is a highly specialized health care professional who…

Haily Crouse 7th grade Mrs.King January 20, 2016 Agent Orange What is Agent Orange? Agent Orange was a herbicide in also a weedkiller. Agent orange caused many difficulties in birth defects it also affected American republic. Agent Orange was a herbicide an a weedkiller used to eliminate rainforest cover so the VC couldn't use it. Agent orange was used alot in the Vietnam war. According to History.com staff it tells me that about 11 to 13 million gallons of Agent Orage was sparyed in…

and neutrons. This means that they give off radiation. Some elements like uranium give off radiation naturally but other sorts are made in a lab for specific purposes like radiotherapy for the treatment of some sorts of cancer. Radiation as a medical treatment has been around for a long time. X-Rays as such were discovered in 1896 by Wilhelm Roentgen and as early as 1901 low dose X-Rays were being used to treat cancer. It was found early on that radiation seamed to treat diseased cells in the…

Radiotherapy treatment is normally used in cancer patients, with the most common type known as external beam therapy. This name evolved because the treatment consists of a beam of radiation that comes from a very sophisticated machine. The beam is focused on the part of the body that contains the tumor, and the largest amount of radiation possible is used to kill the cancer cells. Radiotherapy is very hard on the body. The treatments are short in duration, no more than 10 to 15 minutes. There…

Most individuals with even the most rudimentary knowledge of science have probably heard of x-rays and gamma radiation. Very few however, will be able to tell you where these forms of radiation come from. The answer: Pulsars. Pulsars, or neutron stars, are physics sandboxes that provide extreme conditions for humans to experiment with which are not readily available on Earth. Due to this usefulness, the discovery and research of these phenomena should be of the utmost importance. These neutron…

Brachytherapy is an advanced cancer treatment where radioactive seeds or sources are placed in or near the tumour. This gives a high radiation dose to the tumour while reducing the radiation exposure in the surrounding healthy tissues. History of the technology: The term 'brachytherapy' is derived from the Greek word for ‘short,’ (brachy) which refers to the, “distance between the therapeutic agent and the target lesion.” Commonly used to treat accessible tumours with radium New sources,…

4.0 Results and Discussion Before the strontium quantification of the solutions resulted from the ion exchange experiments, it was necessary to investigate what is the range where strontium absorbs radiation linearly and what is the detection limit. The graphs below show the absorbance (atomic absorption) in function of the strontium concentration and it can clearly be seen in figure 2 that at concentrations above 10 ppm the samples start to present non-linear absorption. Therefore, all the…

Stretch marks are the result of sudden weight changes such as those that occur in pregnancy. These ugly marks are actually scars under the top layer of skin that are also called striae. These scars are the result of rapid growth of the tissue while the skin hasn't grown as quickly. The skin ends up with small ridges that the body repairs with new skin growth that become scars. These may begin as dark purplish marks that eventually turn a silvery color. The skin also has a different consistency…

are subjected to radioactive material on a daily basis. According to Cancer Risks among Radiologists and Radiologic Technologists: Review of Epidemiologic Studies “increased mortality due to leukemia among early workers employed before 1950, when radiation exposures were high” (Cancer Risks among Radiologists and Radiologic Technologists: Review of Epidemiologic Studies, N.A.) This shows the correlation between the workers employed in the early years and cancer, this means that people who…

The question of whether cancer treatment, such as chemotherapy and radiation, is too harsh has been argued for many years by the general public, scientists and medical professionals. One side of the argument think that chemotherapy and radiation therapy are too harsh in the already stressful and painful process of having cancer. The other side thinks that chemotherapy and radiation are the best way to eliminate cancer cells from the body. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are slightly different…