Zvonova Irina A.

Zvonova Irina A.  graduated from the physics faculty of the Leningrad State University and has a degree of a physicist (molecular biophysics), she is Cand.Biol.Sci. in the field of “Hygiene” and Dr.Sci.Tech. in the field of “Safety in emergency situations”.

She works in Federal Scientific Organization “Saint-Petersburg Research Institute of Radiation Hygiene after Professor P.V. Ramzaev” since 1969 and made a career from the junior researcher to the chief researcher. Now she works in the laboratory of medical institutions radiation hygiene and in the field of nuclear medicine radiation safety.

Main fields of scientific research:

- Metabolism and dosimetry parameters of iodine radioisotopes in experimental animals and in patients who underwent diagnostic studies using preparations marked with iodine-131.

- Setting standards of radiation impact and providing radiation safety at work with sources of ionizing radiation.

- Dosimetry of internal irradiation when radioactive substances penetrate into the human body, development of protection methods against iodine radioisotopes penetration into the human body.

All the initial work stage results are summarized in the Candidate's thesis “Radiation and hygienic parameters of iodine radioisotopes” defended in 1983.

From the first days of Chernobyl NPP accident Zvonova I.A. was engaged in monitoring of radiation conditions and dose assessment for polluted territories population. The result of her activity were methodical instructions on calculation of doses in thyroid gland (TG) for population of the Russian Federation polluted territories and dose assessment in TG for population of all the Russian Federation settlements polluted with Cs-137 over 1 Cu/km², assessment of TG cancer incidence in population caused by radiation accident impact. At that time И. А. Звонова participated in many international projects organized  by IAEA, WHO and the European Union aimed at research of Chernobyl accident consequences, results of her works were used in the UNSCEAR reports for 2000 and 2008, in the “IPHECA” WHO program report for 1996, EU reports on the program INCO-Copernicus. After the Japanese “Fukushima -1” NPP accident she participated in the World Health Organization (WHO) working group for the first dose assessment in Japanese population.

Zvonova I.A.  is the expert in the field of radiation safety at medical use of ionizing radiation (nuclear medicine), dosimetry of internal irradiation and radiation ecological research, her works are published in many Russian and international editions. She is the author and co-author of over 180 scientific publications. She headed the development of sanitary rules and specifications: SanPiN 2.6.1.3238-14 “Hygienic requirements for radiation safety at preparation and carrying out of positron emission tomography”, methodical instructions MI 2.6.1.2396-08 "Monitoring of radioactive iodine in case of big radiation accident”; MI 2.6.1.2808-10 “Radiation safety at carrying out of radio nuclide diagnosis using methods of “in vitro” radio immune analysis”; MI 2.6.1.3151-13 “Assessment and account of effective doses in patients at radionuclide diagnostic studies”; a number of other sanitary legislation documents were developed with her participation.

Zvonova I.A. Does a lot in the field of education and social activities, she is the councilor of the Saint-Petersburg branch of the Russian Nuclear Medicine Society. Звонова И. А. is the winner of Rospotrebnadzor prize, has a rank of “High achiever of the Russian Federation healthcare system”, for great achievements in the field of radiation hygiene she was awarded with Professor P.V. Ramzaev Medal of Honor. 

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Main scientific publications

1. I. Zvonova, D. Dubinkin. Open radionuclide sources in nuclear medicine - regulation problems. Medicine: target projects: No 21, 2015, pp. 22-25.
2. I. Zvonova; L. Chipiga; M. Balonov; E. Ermolina. Nuclear Medicine Examinations of Children in Russia. Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2015; doi: 10.1093/rpd/ncv101
3. Golikov V.Yu., Zvonova I.A. Assessment of irradiation doses in Japanese population. Monograph “Fukushima-1” NPP Accident” Under the editorship of G.G. Onishchenko, RAMS Academician. - SPb.: RIRH after Prof. P.V. Ramzaev, 2012. – 336 p
4. Zvonova, M. Balonov V. Golikov. Release criteria for patients having undergone radionuclide therapy and criteria for their crossing the state border of the Russian Federation. Radiation Protection Dosimetry (2011), Vol. 147, No. 1-2, pp. 254-257
5. Zvonova, I., V. Berkovsky, M. Ammann, C. Duffa V. Filistovic, T. Homma, B. Kanyar, T. Nedveckaite, S.L. Simon, O. Vlasov, D. Webbe-Wood. Validation of 131I ecological transfer models and thyroid dose assessments using Chernobyl fallout data from the Plavsk district, Russia, J. Environ. Radioact. 101(2010) 8-15
6. I. Zvonova, A. Bratilova, T. Jesko, S. Sarycheva and M. Fomintceva. Ecological half-life of I-131 in milk after dry and wet radionuclide deposition due to the Chernobyl accident. Radioprotection, vol. 44, No. 5, 2009, pp. 731-734 
7. I. A. Zvonova, A.A. Bratilova, G.T.Pochtennaya. Risk of radiation-caused thyroid gland cancer in population of the Bryansk region due to Chernobyl NPP accident. Medical radiology and radiation safety”, v. 50, No 5, 2005, pp. 41-52
8. Cardis E., Kesminiene A., Ivanov V., …, Zvonova I., … Risk of thyroid cancer after exposure to 131I in childhood//J Natl Cancer Inst. - 2005. - Vol.97 (10). - pp. 724-732.
9. Zvonova I.A., Balonov M.I., Bratilova A.A. Danilova I.O., Vlasov O.K., Shchukina N.V. Thyroid gland irradiation doses in Russian population due to radioactive iodine fallout after Chernobyl NPP accident. Nuclear Energy, 2004, V. 96, iss. 4, pp. 310-316.
10. Directory: “Average doses of thyroid gland irradiation in population of different age living in 1986 in the settlements of Bryansk, Tula, Oryol and Kaluga regions polluted with radionuclides due to Chernobyl NPP accident. Under the editorship of M.I. Balonov and I.A. Zvonova. Russian Healthcare Ministry, Moscow, 2002.)
11. Zvonova I.A., Bruk G.Ya., Kaidanovsky G.N., Jesko T.V., Balonov M.I. Mass Internal Exposure Monitoring of Population in Russia after the Chernobyl Accident. Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 89(3-4) 173-178 (2000)
12. P Jacob, G Goulko, …., I Zvonova, … Thyroid cancer risk to children calculated (Scientific Correspondence). Nature. Vol. 392, No. 6671 (5 March 1998), 31-32.
13. P Jacob, J. Kenigsberg, I Zvonova, G Goulko, et.al Childhood exposure due to the Chernobyl accident and thyroid cancer risk in contaminated areas of Belarus and Russia. British J. of Cancer v.80, 1461-1469 (1999)
14. I.A. Zvonova, M.I. Balonov, A.A. Bratilova. Thyroid Dose Reconstruction for Population of Russia Suffered after the Chernobyl Accident. Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 79(1-4) 175-178, 1998.
15. Zvonova I.A., Balonov M.I., Bratilova A.A. and Vlasov A.Yu. Uncertainty analysis of thyroid dose reconstruction after the Chernobyl accident. In: Radiation and Thyroid Cancer, EUR 18552, 347-352, 1999.
16. I.A. Zvonova, M.I. Balonov, A.A. Bratilova, G.E. Baleva, S.A. Gridasova, M.A. Mitrohin, V.P. Sazhneva. Thyroid absorbed dose assessments for population of the Bryansk, Tula, Oryol regions according to results of radiometry in 1986. Radiation and Risk, v.10, 1997, 95-116 (in Russian).
17. I. A. Zvonova Absorbed dose assessment in fetus and newborns thyroid gland following the Chernobyl NPP accident. Radiation and Risk, iss.10, 1998, pp. 117-123.     
18. Zvonova I.A. and Balonov M.I., Radioiodine dosimetry and Prediction of Consequences of Thyroid Exposure of the Russian Population Following the Chernobyl Accident, in: The Chernobyl Papers v. 1, ed. S.E. Merwin & M.I. Balonov, Research Enterprises, Richland, W., USA, 1993, 71-126.
19. Zvonova I.A. Dietary intake of stable iodine and some aspects of radioiodine dosimetry, Health Phys., 57 (3), 471-475, 1989.
20. I. A. Zvonova, I.A. Likhtarev. Substantiation of iodine radioisotopes admissible levels. Hygiene and Sanitary, No.1, 1986, pp. 50-53. 
21. I. A. Zvonova, I.A. Likhtarev, A.A. Nikolaeva. Thyroid gland irradiation at radioiodine inspection of patients with thyroid failures. Medical Radiology, 2, 1984, 42-44.     
22. I. A. Zvonova, I.A. Likhtarev Penetration of free iodide-131 in personnel and patients thyroid gland at diagnostic inspections with pharmaceutical radioactive tracers. Medical Radiology, No 3, 1981, pp. 26-32.