linear no-threshold model

These ideas are combined to form the linear no-threshold model.

Recent fundamental research of the cellular repair mechanisms support the evidence against the linear no-threshold model.

All calculations that involve adding doses assume the Linear no-threshold model for health effects.

A threshold model or linear no-threshold model may be more appropriate, depending on the circumstances.

See Lowest-observed-adverse-effect level and linear no-threshold model hypothesis.

However, other organisations disagree with using the Linear no-threshold model to estimate risk from environmental and occupational low-level radiation exposure.

Gofman promoted a linear no-threshold model for the dangers of radiation, suggesting that even small doses over time could prove harmful.

If this linear no-threshold model is correct, it should be possible to observe an increased incidence of cancer in Ramsar through careful long-term studies currently underway.

Given the linear no-threshold model of radiation response, the collective dose that a population is exposed to is measured in "man-sieverts" (man·Sv).

Therefore, the Linear no-threshold model (LNT) continues to be the model generally used by regulatory agencies for human radiation exposure.

Many parties have criticized the ICRP's adoption of the linear no-threshold model for exaggerating the effects of low radiation doses.

The linear no-threshold model (LNT) is a model used in radiation protection to quantify radiation exposition and set regulatory limits.

The linear no-threshold model is used to extrapolate the expected number of extra deaths caused by exposure to environmental radiation, and it therefore has a great impact on public policy.

Professor Cohen was a staunch opponent to the so-called Linear no-threshold model (LNT) which postulates there exists no safe threshold for radiation exposure.

The linear no-threshold model (LNT) hypothesis is accepted by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and regulators around the world.)

According to the linear no-threshold model, any exposure to ionizing radiation, even at doses too low to produce any symptoms of radiation sickness, can induce cancer due to cellular and genetic damage.

Opponents use a cancer per dose model to assert that such activities cause several hundred cases of cancer per year, an application of the widely accepted Linear no-threshold model (LNT).

An alternative type of model in toxicology is the linear no-threshold model (LNT), while hormesis is a general term covering the type of response there may be to a drug.

Debate on the applicability of Linear no-threshold model versus Radiation hormesis and other competing models continues, however, the predicted low rate of cancer with low dose means that large sample sizes are required in order to make meaningful conclusions.

The WHO's prediction of 4,000 future cancer deaths in surrounding countries is based on the Linear no-threshold model (LNT), which assumes that the damage inflicted by radiation at low doses is directly proportional to the dose.

For policy making purposes, the commonly accepted model of dose response in radiobiology is the linear no-threshold model (LNT), which assumes a strictly linear dependence between the risk of radiation-induced adverse health effects and radiation dose.

Radiation hormesis stands in stark contrast to the more generally accepted linear no-threshold model (LNT), which states that the radiation dose-risk relationship is linear across all doses, so that small doses are still damaging, albeit less so than higher ones.

The IAEA's exclusion of data where estimated dose is below a certain threshold (following ICRP recommendations) is contrary to normal practice, even the ICRP's own practice, and contradicts the linear no-threshold model (LNT).

The linear no-threshold model has since been kept in a conservative approach by the UNSCEAR report and the BEIR VI and BEIR VII publications, essentially for lack of a better choice:

The health risks in the WHO assessment attributable to the Fukushima radiation release were calculated by largely applying the conservative Linear no-threshold model of radiation exposure, a model that assumes even the smallest amount of radiation exposure will cause a negative health effect.