"It's more a psychological weapon" that, if successful, would play upon popular fears about radiation, he said.
There is also anecdotal evidence from professionals in the imaging field that articles in the popular press about radiation risks from medical imaging are generating concern among patients (Esz 2013; Fletcher et al. 2013).
One popular analogy that quantifies radiation exposure while flying in numbers of chest X-rays, said Joe Kunches, chief of the space weather operations division, is often imprecise.
Linear accelerators (LINACs) are the most popular equipment to deliver radiation therapy in hospitals.
A rotating gantry has been a popular tool for a radiation cancer therapy.
Numerical weather prediction (NWP) models are a popular approach for solar radiation forecasting, and are used to generate forecasts up to several days ahead.
The penetration of radiation into popular culture was rapid and pervasive; yet, its role as a thematic subject in art never fully caught on, perhaps because of a lack of understanding of the technology, radiation's intangibility, or even a suppressive effect of society's ambivalent relationship with it.
The federal Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it would take steps to more stringently regulate three of the most potent forms of medical radiation, including increasingly popular CT scans, some of which deliver the radiation equivalent of 400 chest X-rays.
To make predictions of radiation effects, a popular simulation model of the effect of radiotherapy, local effect model (LEM) is used (Elsässer and Scholz 2007; Elsässer et al. 2008).
Sunscreens are popular protective products against ultraviolet radiation hazards, early skin aging, and skin cancer [ 106].
