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| Kwang Pyo KimSummaryAffiliation: National Institutes of Health Country: USA Publications
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Occupational radiation doses to operators performing cardiac catheterization proceduresKwang Pyo Kim
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 7238, USA
Health Phys 94:211-27. 2008..Better standardization of dosimetric methods will facilitate future analyses aimed at determining how well medical radiation workers are being protected...- Historical review of occupational exposures and cancer risks in medical radiation workersMartha S Linet
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 7238, USA
Radiat Res 174:793-808. 2010.... - Radiation-related cancer risks from CT colonography screening: a risk-benefit analysisAmy Berrington de Gonzalez
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 6120 Executive Blvd, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 196:816-23. 2011..The purpose of this study was to estimate the ratio of cancers prevented to induced (benefit-risk ratio) for CT colonography (CTC) screening every 5 years from the age of 50 to 80 years... - Children's exposure to diagnostic medical radiation and cancer risk: epidemiologic and dosimetric considerationsMartha S Linet
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892 7238, USA
Pediatr Radiol 39:S4-26. 2009.... - Low-dose lung computed tomography screening before age 55: estimates of the mortality reduction required to outweigh the radiation-induced cancer riskAmy Berrington de Gonzalez
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Med Screen 15:153-8. 2008..e. the efficacy) needed to outweigh these risks for never and current-smokers. The risk of radiation-induced breast cancer was also estimated for women... - Projected cancer risks from computed tomographic scans performed in the United States in 2007Amy Berrington de Gonzalez
Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:2071-7. 2009..Despite the great medical benefits, there is concern about the potential radiation-related cancer risk. We conducted detailed estimates of the future cancer risks from current CT scan use in the US according to age, sex, and scan type... - Organ doses for reference adult male and female undergoing computed tomography estimated by Monte Carlo simulationsChoonsik Lee
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20852, USA
Med Phys 38:1196-206. 2011..organ doses in a reference adult male and female for different scan ranges to investigate the degree to which existing commercial programs can reasonably match organ doses defined in these more anatomically realistic adult hybrid phantoms.. - Organ doses for reference pediatric and adolescent patients undergoing computed tomography estimated by Monte Carlo simulationChoonsik Lee
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20852
Med Phys 39:2129-46. 2012.... - Myocardial perfusion scans: projected population cancer risks from current levels of use in the United StatesAmy Berrington de Gonzalez
Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Circulation 122:2403-10. 2010..We estimated potential future cancer risk from these scans by age at exposure and current frequency of use in the United States... - CT colonography: perforation rates and potential radiation risksA Berrington de Gonzalez
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Radiation Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Gastrointest Endosc Clin N Am 20:279-91. 2010..In this article the authors review the current evidence for these potential harms from CTC and compare them to the potential harms from the alternatives including colonoscopy and double-contrast barium enema... - Coronary artery calcification screening: estimated radiation dose and cancer riskKwang Pyo Kim
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:1188-94. 2009..We estimated organ-specific radiation doses and associated cancer risks from coronary artery calcification screening with multidetector computed tomography according to patient age, frequency of screening, and scan protocol... - Effective dose scaling factors for use with uranium series cascade impactor data: a reassessment using the IMBA codeKwang Pyo Kim
Department of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-8300, USA
Health Phys 91:331-7. 2006..For linearly increasing distributions, greater than 10% corrections in the effective dose are found irregularly across impactor stage, radionuclide, and solubility class, especially for rather steep (1:5) impactor stage activity ratios... - TENORM aerosols in the Florida phosphate industry--assessment of lung fluid solubility and annual effective dose to workersKwang Pyo Kim
Department of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 8300, USA
Radiat Prot Dosimetry 123:41-55. 2007..23 +/- 0.02 mSv at shipping areas. These findings are considerably lower than originally postulated in previous studies where no site-specific information on particle size and lung fluid solubility had been available... - Influence of particle size distribution on inhalation doses to workers in the Florida phosphate industryKwang Pyo Kim
Department of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-8300, USA
Health Phys 91:58-67. 2006..The study thus demonstrates the importance of facility- and area-specific particle solubility data in dose assessments for regulatory compliance and for making decisions regarding worker respiratory protection... - Effective dose scaling factors for use with cascade impactor sampling data in tenorm inhalation exposuresKwang Pyo Kim
Department of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32611-8300, USA
Health Phys 89:359-74. 2005.... - Radiation-induced cancer risk from annual computed tomography for patients with cystic fibrosisAmy Berrington de Gonzalez
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 176:970-3. 2007..Computed tomography (CT) is being considered as a tool for routine monitoring of lung damage in people with cystic fibrosis. Concern has been raised, however, about the associated risk of radiation-induced cancer...