The 2020 MELODI workshop on the effects of spatial and temporal variation in dose delivery

• Published in: Radiation and environmental biophysics Vol. 61; no. 4; pp. 479 - 483
• Main Authors: Madas, Balázs G., Wojcik, Andrzej
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01-11-2022; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biological and Medical Physics; Biophysics; Cross cutting; Ecosystems; Editorial; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection; Environmental Physics; Health risks; Meetings; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; procedures; Radiation Dosage; radiation dose; Radiation protection; Radiation Protection - methods; Temporal variations; Workshops
• ISSN: 0301-634X; 1432-2099; 1432-2099
• DOI: 10.1007/s00411-022-01002-3

A key activity of MELODI is to organise annual European meetings where scientific results and future directions and strategies of relevant research are discussed. The annual meetings, previously organised solely under the auspices of MELODI are, since 2016, jointly organised by the European platforms and referred to as European Radiation Protection Weeks (ERPW). In addition to ERPW meetings, MELODI organises and finances annual workshops dedicated to specific topics. Outputs and recommendations from the meetings are published as review articles. The 2020 workshop focussed on one of the cross cutting topics: the effects of spatial and temporal variation in dose delivery on disease risk. The current issue of REBS includes five review articles from the workshop on the effects of spatial and temporal variation in dose delivery and this editorial is a short summary of their content.