Health physics/Related Articles
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
- See also changes related to Health physics, or pages that link to Health physics or to this page or whose text contains "Health physics".
Parent topics
- Ionizing radiation [r]: Subatomic particles or electromagnetic waves that are energetic enough to detach electrons from atoms or molecules, ionizing them. [e]
- Radiology [r]: A physician specialty with a core competence in obtaining and diagnosing by means of instruments that receive energy transmitted through the body; there are a number of subspecialties. [e]
Subtopics
- Instrumentation for radioactivity [r]: Devices that variously detect, measure and characterize radioactivity; they may be intended for field or laboratory use [e]
- Acute radiation syndrome [r]: Disease or death caused by whole-body irradiation, over a short period of time, with a significant quantity of penetrating radiation [e]
- Fractionated radiotherapy [r]: Medical treatment with ionizing radiation, in which the total dose is spread over multiple treatment sessions, and possibly multiple exposures within the same session [e]
- Allergy and immunology [r]: In medicine medical specialty concerned with the hypersensitivity of the individual to foreign substances and protection from the resultant infection or disorder; may be a subspecialty of internal medicine or pediatrics; also includes the biological scientific study of the immune system and the development of laboratory support for immune phenomena [e]
- Glioblastoma [r]: An aggressively invasive neoplasm of the central nervous system, primarily the brain; not curable but length of survival has improved somewhat in recent years [e]
- Perennial allergic rhinitis [r]: Allergic inflammation of the nose and connecting structures, which is established not to be caused by a seasonal allergen [e]