BIOMEDICAL ASPECTS OF NONIONIZING RADIATION
CDR William C. Milroy, MC, USN · 1974
The report compiles proceedings from a 1973 symposium on nonionizing radiation bioeffects featuring six invited papers.
Plain English Summary
The one-day symposium was held on 10 July 1973 at the Naval Weapons Laboratory in Dahlgren, Virginia. The symposium marked the opening and dedication of a new Biomedical Research Laboratory and the start of a multidisciplinary research effort on nonionizing radiation bioeffects. Six invited papers covered bio-engineering, comparative biology, human exposure factors, high power pulses, and EMP bioeffects. The proceedings were published because of a large number of requests for reprints of the presented papers.
Why This Matters
Tyler noted that much of the scientific community had shunned nonionizing radiation research, calling it a pseudo-science due to the lack of a unifying theory. He argued that observations not fitting current concepts should not be automatically rejected if they persist and are validated. Tyler reported that recent studies suggested pulsed radiation may be more effective than continuous waves in producing biological effects. He highlighted that the ANSI C-95 committee expressed concern about peak pulse exposure limits but took no action because of insufficient experimental data. Tyler also pointed out that long-term low-level exposure and frequency dependence were areas experiencing a renaissance, and that there was inadequate data for frequency-based exposure standards.
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@article{biomedical_aspects_of_nonionizing_radiation_g4959,
author = {CDR William C. Milroy and MC and USN},
title = {BIOMEDICAL ASPECTS OF NONIONIZING RADIATION},
year = {1974},
}