Determination of the absorbed dose and the average LET of space radiation in dependence on shielding conditions.

abstract：:The use of the parallel-plate avalanche counter for slow-neutron counting is described. The choice of a suitable neutron converter is discussed on the basis of Monte Carlo simulation, and some experimental results are shown. Excellent gamma-insensitivity, high rate capability, possibility of construction in large sens...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Nakhostin M,Baba M,Itoga T,Oishi T,Unno Y,Kamada S,Okuji T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A project to construct the Korea Multi-purpose Accelerator Complex (KOMAC) is currently underway targeting a high-intensity proton beam with an average current of 4.8 mA. As for the first stage of construction, a 20 MeV linac is planned to be built by 2007 and additional DTL sections will be added to increase the prot...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Cho YS,Lee YO,Chang J

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the Chernobyl reactor accident wide areas of Belarus were contaminated with radioactive fallout. The verification and documentation of the long-term development of radiation doses is still going on. A population group of special concern are the children living in contaminated regions. The annual dose limit of 1 ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Hill P,Schläger M,Vogel V,Hille R,Nesterenko AV,Nesterenko VB

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual genetic variation can influence susceptibility to the carcinogenic effects of many environmental carcinogens. In radiation-exposed populations those individuals with a greater genetically determined susceptibility would be at greater risk of developing cancer. To include this modification of risk into radia...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Rosemann M,Kuosaite V,Nathrath M,Atkinson MJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outdoor gamma background of the historic center of Rome was studied by in situ measurements and average values of the outcropping geological formations. The survey resulted in two maps of dose equivalent rate, related to pre-anthropic and present conditions. Presently, the average of the dose equivalent rate from ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Daniela G,Carloni S,Voltaggio M,Di Lisa GA

更新日期：2019-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2000 and 2001 about 279 and 221 radiation workers, respectively, were monitored by the Federal Radiation Protection Service, University of Ibadan, in Nigeria. The distribution of the occupational doses shows that the majority of workers received doses below 4 mSv in each of the two years. The radiation workers in t...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ogundare FO,Balogun FA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite wide use of nuclear energy and radiation sources in industry and medicine, there is no centralised dose accounting system in Ukraine; existing dosimetry services operate obsolete manual thermoluminescence dosemeter (TLD) readers and do not meet modern proficiency standards. Currently, dosimetric monitoring is ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Chumak V,Boguslavskaya A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For more accurate assessments of the occupational exposure to radon for miners, the individual monitoring was conducted by using an improved passive integrating (222)Rn monitor. A total of 120 miners in 3 different kinds of mines were monitored throughout a year. The results showed that the individual exposure to rado...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Fan D,Zhuo W,Zhang Y

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physics foundations of hadronic interactions as implemented in most Monte Carlo codes are presented together with a few practical examples. The description of the relevant physics is presented schematically split into the major steps in order to stress the different approaches required for the full understanding o...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ferrari A,Sala PR

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the research was to determine the effect of the posteroanterior (PA) patient position in lumbar spine imaging on effective dose and the absorbed organ dose. The study was performed on 100 patients that were referred to the lumbar spine radiography that were divided into two equal groups of 50. Body Mass...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Alukić E,Mekiš N

更新日期：2019-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of various experiments which characterise the optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) signals from polymineral fine grains of a Martian soil simulant sample (JSC Mars-1) are presented. The blue-green stimulated luminescence signal has greater thermal stability than the infrared stimulated luminescence sign...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Banerjee D,Blair M,Lepper K,McKeever SW

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The US has far-reaching and extensive experience in the long-term management of areas contaminated with radioactive materials. This experience base includes the Department of Energy's continued follow-up with Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the 1940s at the Radiological Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima, Japan, the...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Jones CR

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the framework of collaboration among the ENEA Radiation Protection Institute (Bologna), the ENEA Fusion Department (Frascati) and the INFN-LNF-Radiation Protection Group (Frascati), an experimental campaign was organised on the usage of thermoluminescence dosemeters (TLDs) for the dosimetric and spectrometric chara...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Bedogni R,Angelone M,Esposito A,Chiti M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper presents the first results of an investigation on optical absorption (OA), thermally and infrared stimulated luminescence (TL and IRSL) of the Pinacate plagioclase (labradorite). The OA spectra reveal two bands with maxima at 1.0 and 3.2 eV connected with absorption of the Fe3+ and Fe2+ and IR absorption at ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Chernov V,Paz-Moreno F,Piters TM,Barboza-Flores M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Boron neutron capture therapy is known to be an effective radiation cancer therapy that requires neutron irradiation. A neutron field generated by an accelerator-based neutron source has various energy spectra, and it is necessary to evaluate the neutron spectrum in the treatment field. However, the method used to mea...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Tamaki S,Kusaka S,Sato F,Murata I

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radon exposure in schools is different from that in dwellings because the residence pattern is very different each other. So, when effective dose is calculated in schools, different approach should be considered from in dwellings. The aim of this study was to estimate actual effective dose due to inhaled radon conside...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Lee ER,Chang BU,Kim YJ

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radon concentrations in soil-gas and water samples (in the form of springs, catchment, tap, thermal) used as drinking water or thermal were measured using a professional radon monitor AlphaGUARD PQ 2000PRO. The measured radon concentrations in water samples ranged from 0.32 to 88.22 Bq l(-1). Most of radon levels ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Koray A,Akkaya G,Kahraman A,Kaynak G

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radon ((222)Rn) measurements were undertaken in 16 samples of well water representing different depths and different types of aquifers found at the city centre of Konya, Central Turkey. The radon activity concentrations of the well water samples collected in the spring and summer seasons of 2012 were measured by using...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Erdogan M,Eren N,Demirel S,Zedef V

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new official albedo dosemeter based on thermoluminescent detectors has been introduced in 2015 by the individual monitoring service of the Helmholtz Zentrum München for monitoring persons who are exposed occupationally against photon and neutron radiation. To enhance the sensitivity for fast neutrons, a new badge wi...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Haninger T,Henniger J

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Is atmospheric dispersion forecasting an important asset of the early-phase nuclear emergency response management? Is there a 'perfect atmospheric dispersion model'? Is there a way to make the results of dispersion models more reliable and trustworthy? While seeking to answer these questions the multi-model ensemble d...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Galmarini S,Bianconi R,Klug W,Mikkelsen T,Addis R,Andronopoulos S,Astrup P,Baklanov A,Bartniki J,Bartzis JC,Bellasio R,Bompay F,Buckley R,Bouzom M,Champion H,D'Amours R,Davakis E,Eleveld H,Geertsema GT,Glaab H,Kol

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of an automatic wedge filter on photon and photoneutron spectra of a medical linac was evaluated using the Monte Carlo method. The head of an Elekta SL75/25 was simulated using the MCNPX Monte Carlo code. The photon and photoneutron spectra for open and wedged beams were calculated at the isocentre with a s...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ghavami SM,Mesbahi A,Mohammadi E

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virtual models of real phantoms used with Monte Carlo methods facilitate the calibration and other studies associated with whole-body and partial-body counting systems. In this investigation, a voxel model of an LLNL torso phantom, available physically in the in vivo laboratory at KIT, was created from computed tomogr...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Hegenbart L,Marzocchi O,Breustedt B,Urban M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper the effect of treatment room and maze layout on the photoneutron and capture gamma dose equivalent in the maze was studied. MCNPX Monte Carlo (MC) code was used to simulate the Varian 2100 C/D Clinac 18 MV and four different room layouts. Two analytical methods, Wu-McGinley and McGinley, were used for do...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Mesbahi A,Ghiasi H,Mahdavi SR

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the uncertainties for nuclear track detectors used in radon measurements, a full understanding is required of the physical phenomena involved and the behaviour of the instruments utilised in the measuring process. As it concerns the LR115 nuclear track detector, an overall evaluation of uncertainty was giv...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Campi F,Caresana M,Ferrarini M,Garlati L,Palermo M,Rusconi R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United Kingdom it is a legal requirement that the radiation doses received by classified persons are measured using dosemeters that have been provided by an approved dosimetry service. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the regulatory body responsible for approving these dosimetry services. Until recently...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Bevington LM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the exposure to natural sources of radiation for people in the vicinity of remediated Hungarian uranium mine regional surveys were carried out. The surveys evaluated indoor radon concentrations and outdoor and indoor external gamma dose rates. Radon concentration has been measured with nuclear et...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Gorjánácz Z,Várhegyi A,Kovács T,Somlai J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In circumstances of inhalation exposure the radiotoxicity of radionuclide depends on the fractional deposition of inhaled activity, which is governed by the aerodynamic characteristics of the particles. Although International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) provides default size distribution parameters fo...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Shailesh M,Das T,Prabhat M,Kolekar RV,Gopalakrishnan RK

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The counting efficiency and detection limit of an in vivo thyroid 131I monitoring system using an imaging plate (IP) were estimated using an anthropomorphic thyroid neck phantom. The counting efficiency of the IP system was approximately constant for thyroid volumes between 11.7 and 20 ml and neck diameters between 10...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Hirota M,Saze T,Nishizawa K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the availability of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Radon Emanation Standard with a content of approximately 5000 Bq of 226Ra, it is possible to build a flow through a practical radon test chamber. A standard glove box with four gloves and a transfer port is used. Air is pumped through a...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kotrappa P,Stieff F

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experimental energy dependence of the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) radiation-induced signal at irradiation by photons in the energy range of 13 keV-1.25 MeV was analysed in terms of the absorbed dose in human tooth enamel. The latter was calculated using a Monte Carlo simulation of the photon and electron...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ivannikov AI,Tikunov DD,Borysheva NB,Trompier F,Skvortsov VG,Stepanenko VF,Hoshi M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00