title: Status of NCRP Scientific Committee 1-23 Commentary on Guidance on Radiation Dose Limits for the Lens of the Eye.
abstract: Previous National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) publications have addressed the issues of risk and dose limitation in radiation protection and included guidance on specific organs and the lens of the eye. NCRP decided to prepare an updated commentary intended to enhance the previous recommendations provided in earlier reports. The NCRP Scientific Committee 1-23 (SC 1-23) is charged with preparing a commentary that will evaluate recent studies on the radiation dose response for the development of cataracts and also consider the type and severity of the cataracts as well as the dose rate; provide guidance on whether existing dose limits to the lens of the eye should be changed in the United States; and suggest research needs regarding radiation effects on and dose limits to the lens of the eye. A status of the ongoing work of SC 1-23 was presented at the Annual Meeting, "Changing Regulations and Radiation Guidance: What Does the Future Hold?" The following represents a synopsis of a few main points in the current draft commentary. It is likely that several changes will be forthcoming as SC 1-23 responds to subject matter expert review and develops a final document, expected by mid 2016.
authors.affiliation: *Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; †Public Health England, Oxford, United Kingdom; ‡Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; §Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC; **University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; ††Indian Point Energy Center, Buchanan, NY; ‡‡Johns Hopkins Medicine, Bel Air, MD; §§Complutense University, Madrid, Spain; ***Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; †††U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Rockville, MD; ‡‡‡Boston University, Boston, MA; §§§Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Tokyo, Japan; ****Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA; ††††National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Bethesda, MD; ‡‡‡‡Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.
authors.forename: Lawrence T
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authors.lastname: Dauer
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authors.lastname: Ainsbury
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authors.lastname: Dynlacht
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authors.lastname: Prescott
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authors.lastname: Woloschak
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authors.lastname: Flannery
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authors.lastname: Goldstein
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mesh_terms: D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000528:radiation effects*; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000592:standards*; D011874:Radiometry; D012958:Societies, Scientific / Q000458:organization & administration*