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Original paper entitled “Investigation of using a long-life electronic personal dosimeter for monitoring aviation doses of frequent flyers” written by Prof. Yasuda et al. has been published on Radiation Measurements. Applicability of a small electronic dosimeter having a long-life battery was investigated to long-term aviation dose monitoring of frequent flyers.
The Japanese translation of ICRP Publication 132 “Radiological Protection from Cosmic Radiation in Aviation” has been published by the Japanese government
A paper entitled “Investigation of the applicability of the ESR nail dosimetry for assessment of accidental exposure in medical facilities” written by Chryzel et al has been published on the Radiation Measurements journal. Dose responses and fading characteristics of the ESR signals from the fingernails were investigated.
Ms. Chryzel A. Gonzales in the Department received Best Oral Presentation Award at the 18th Asia-Oceania Congress of Medical Physics (AOCMP18) which was held Bangsar South City, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 11 to 14 November 2018 in conjunction with the 16th South-East Asia Congress of Medical Physics (SEACOMP16).
A paper entitled “Annual per-capita doses of the Japanese from cosmic radiation exposure in commercial flights” written by Prof. Yasuda was published in the Radiation Protection Dosimetry journal. This paper reported that the annual-average per-capita dose of the Japanese people was 8.3 µSv for the period of 2009 to 2014 and 90 % of those came from international flights.
A paper entitled “Relative biological effectiveness of neutrons derived from the excess relative risk model with the atomic bomb survivors data managed by Hiroshima University (広島大学が保管する原爆被爆者のデータから導出した過剰相対リスクに基づく生物学的効果比)” written by Dr. Sato, Prof. Yasuda, et al was published in the Radiation Protection Dosimetry journal. This paper suggested that the value of neutrons’ relative biological effectiveness (RBE) derived from the A-bomb survivors’ data would be larger than that estimated previously.
A paper entitled “Estimation of the cumulative cancer risk of female children attributable to radiocasesium in soil in an evacuation zone, prior to their return” written by Prof. Yasuda was published in Journal of Radiation Research. This paper pointed out the difficulty in decision makings based on the effective dose and then demonstrated alternative procedures based on the health risk of the most radiologically-sensitive group (i.e., female children).
In April 2018, Prof. Yasuda received “Outstanding Reviewer Award” from Elsevier Ltd (the most well-known publisher of academic journals & books) for the remarkable contributions to the reviews of the manuscripts submitted to the journals published by Elsevier.
