Scope: Health Physics, first published in 1958, provides the latest research to a wide variety of radiation safety professionals including health physicists, nuclear chemists, medical physicists, and radiation safety officers with interests in nuclear and radiation science. The Journal allows professionals in these and other disciplines in science and engineering to stay on the cutting edge of scientific and technological advances in the field of radiation safety. The Journal publishes original papers, technical notes, articles on advances in practical applications, editorials, and correspondence. Journal articles report on the latest findings in theoretical, practical, and applied disciplines of epidemiology and radiation effects, radiation biology and radiation science, radiation ecology, and related fields.
Official Journal of the Health Physics Society 

Mission: Health Physics publishes impactful and high-quality research related to radiation safety and protection of workers, the public, and the environment. The Journal is committed to publishing on innovative topics and research that influence the future practice, science, and technological advances in the field of radiation safety.

Vision: Health Physics will be the top source of radiation safety and protection information for health physicists, radiation professionals, and other specialists in related fields.

Editor-in-Chief 
Brant A. Ulsh 
Managing Editor
Linnea E. Wahl
Editorial Assistant
Deanna D. Baker
Book Editor
Andrew Karam
Technology Monitor Editor
Ken Kasper

Editors
Brant A. Ulsh
897 Baccarat Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45245
Brant_Ulsh@mhchew.com
 
Linnea Wahl
950 Herndon Parkway, Suite 450 
Herndon, VA 20170
lewahl@hps.org
 
William H. Bailey
Exponent
17000 Science Drive
Suite 200
Bowie, MD 20715
wbailey@exponent.com 
J. Matthew Barnett 
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, PO Box 999, J2-25 
Richland, WA 99352 
matthew.barnett@pnnl.gov

Roland Benke
Atom Consulting LLC
11900 Jollyville Rd
#200954
Austin, TX 78720
benke@umich.edu
Wesley E. Bolch
Department of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering
University of Florida
202 Nuclear Science Center
Gainesville, FL 32611-8300
wbolch@ufl.edu
Bruce Busby
Radiation Safety Officer
EH&S, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
1100 Fairview Avenue, N, LM 230
Seattle, WA 98109
babusby@aol.com
Ronald E. Goans
Occupational and Radiation Medicine
MJW Corporation
1422 Eagle Bend Drive
Clinton, TN 37716
ronald.goans@comcast.net 
David M. Hamby
Department of Nuclear Engineering
Oregon State University
E130 Radiation Center
Corvallis, OR 97331-5902
david.hamby@oregonstate.edu
Yigal Horowitz
Physics Department
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
P.O. Box 653
Beersheva 84005, Israel
yigal@BGUmail.bgu.ac.il
Tracy A. Ikenberry
Dade Moeller and Associates, Inc.
1835 Terminal Drive
Suite 200
Richland, WA 99354
ikenberry@moellerinc.com 
Cynthia G. Jones
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Office of Nuclear Regulartory Research
Mail Stop T10-B58
Washington, DC 20555
cynthia.jones@nrc.gov
Ken Kasper
Hazardous Materials Program
Lawrence Livermore National Labratory
Building 3725, Room 133
Livermore, CA 94550
kkasper8@llnl.gov
Craig A. Little
Two Lines, Inc.
896 Overview Road
Grand Junction, CO 81506
twolines@bresnan.net
David C Medich
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
100 Institute Road
Worcester, MA 01609
dcmedich@wpi.edu
Robert Miltenberger
2 Torreon Court
Santa Fe, NM 87508
miltenbe@q.com
Stephen V. Musolino
Brookhaven National Laboratory
P.O. Box 100
Upton, NY 11973-5000
musolino@bnl.gov
Stephen V. Musolino
Brookhaven National Laboratory
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
musolino@bnl.gov
Constantin Papastefanou
Atomic and Nuclear Physics Laboratory
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki 54124, Greece
papastefanou@physics.auth.gr
Charles A. Potter
Sandia National Laboratories
P.O. Box 5800, MS0651
Albuquerque, NM 87185-0651
capotte@sandia.gov
Rodican P. Reed
2521 Cross Winds Lane
Chattanooga, TN 37421
rodanbobi@comcast.net
William G. Rhodes III
Contraband Detection Technologies Department
Sandia National Laboratories
P.O. Box 5800
Albuquerque, NM 87185-0767
wgrhode@sandia.gov
Joseph P. Ring
Radiation Safety Officer
Director, Radiation Safety
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
330 Brookline Ave
Boston, MA 02115
jpring@bidmc.harvard.edu
Stefan Roesler 
CERN1211,Geneva 23, Switzerland
stefan.roesler@cern.ch

Mark J. Rudin
Boise State University
Research Administration, MS-1135
1910 University Drive
Boise, ID 83725
mrudin@tamuc.edu


Qiu Rui 
Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University,
P.R. China, 100084 
qiurui@tsinghua.edu.cn

Erno Sajo
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5820
nserno@lsu.edu
Scott O. Schwahn 
Nuclear and Radiological Protection Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, MS 6461
PO Box 2008
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-2008 
schwahnso@ornl.gov

Ali Simpkins
Dade Moeller & Associates
2826 Stokely Hill
San Antonio, TX 78258
asimpkins2@yahoo.com
Michael G. Stabin
President, RADAR, Inc.
stabinmg17@gmail.com
Glen Sturchio
Mayo Clinic, Department of Radiology
4500 San Pablo Road
Jacksonville, FL 32224
sturchio.glenn@mayo.edu

Andrew H. Thatcher
522 North E St. 
Tacoma, WA 98403
thatcher.drew@comcast.net
Ladislav Tomásek
National Radiation Protection Institute
Srobarova 48, 100 00
Prague, Czech Republic
ladislav.tomasek@suro.cz
Mark A. Tries
Radiological Sciences Program
Department of Physics and Applied Physics
University of Massachusetts Lowell
One University Avenue
Lowell, MA 01854
mark_tries@uml.edu

Vaclav Vylet 
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
12050 Jefferson Avenue, MS 602
Newport News, VA 23606
vylet@jlab.org

Health Physics Advisory Board
IRPA Publications Director
Richard Griffith
Chairman
756 Cypress Run
Woodbridge, CA 95258, USA
IRPA President
Philip E. Metcalf
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Department of Nuclear Safety
A-1400 
Vienna, Austria
IRPA Executive Officer
J. Lochard
Centre d’etude sur l’Evaluation de la Protection, dans le domaine Nucleaire (CEPN)
France
IRPA Treasurer
Brian Dodd
BDConsulting
Las Vegas, NV
USA