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- FIGURE 1.
Three hypotheses of radiation dose-response relationship, as proposed by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation in 1958. (Reprinted with permission of (3).)
- FIGURE 2.
Radiation hormesis hypothesis compared with LNT and linear model with threshold. In all 3 graphs, x-axes represent radiation dose and y-axes represent magnitude of health effect. Zero-equivalent point (ZEP) represents level of health effect in absence of radiation. The quadratic model of Figure 1 approximates threshold graph of this figure. A threshold model would imply no effects of radiation up to certain level, after which risk rises linearly with dose. The radiation hormesis model, in contrast, shows beneficial effect at low levels of exposure as it drops below ZEP. (Reprinted with permission of (7).)
- FIGURE 3.
Incidence of leukemia as function of radiation dose in atomic bomb survivors in Japan. (Reprinted with permission of (3).)
