A review of the properties of the dosimetric systems and the quality assurance programmes of 48 dosimetric services in the European Union and Switzerland.

abstract：:The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) has published two reports giving recommendations dealing with the avoidance of deterministic injuries in interventional radiology and the management of patient dose in digital radiology in 2001 and 2004, respectively. Another document, on radiation protect...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Vano E,Faulkner K

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of image quality parameters in digital mammography such as contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and detective quantum efficiency (DQE) has been widespread, with the intention of detector evaluation and/or quantitative evaluation of the system performance. These parameters are useful in en...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Borg M,Badr I,Royle GJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The material for this study comprised control protocols from 248 mammography screening facilities, prepared by physicists employed at 16 Regional Coordinating Centres and the results from the clinical evaluation of mammographic images in 248 facilities in Poland. All mammograms were evaluated independently by three ex...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Fabiszewska E,Grabska I,Jankowska K,Wesolowska E,Bulski W

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper shows methods to suppress radon emanation from artificial porous materials such as phosphorous fertiliser or diatomaceous earth with a small amount of radium. The basic concept of suppression is making the radon emanation mechanism 'null', which comes from the fact that recoil is the main mechanism o...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Sasaki T,Gunji Y,Okuda T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relatively high organ doses absorbed by patients in interventional cardiology suggest the opportunity to define these patients as a cohort to be followed forward in time in an epidemiological study of the cancer risks associated with exposure to low-dose ionising radiation. In this paper, the UNSCEAR 2000 Report risk ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Malisan MR,Padovani R,Faulkner K,Malone JF,Vaño E,Jankowski J,Kosunen A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional cooperation in radioactive waste management (RWM) in the Asian and Oceanic countries has been successfully developing for more than 20 y. At present, the Asian and Oceanic countries recognise that there are several projects under the regional cooperation, such as the Forum for Nuclear Cooperation in Asia (FNC...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ya-anant N,Thiangtrongjit S

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been several suggestions of biomarkers that are specific to high LET radiation. Such a biomarker could significantly increase the power of epidemiological studies of individuals exposed to densely-ionising radiations such as alpha particles (e.g. radon, plutonium workers, individuals exposed to depleted ura...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Brenner DJ,Okladnikova N,Hande P,Burak L,Geard CR,Azizova T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the shielding effect of radiologists' eye lens with lead glasses of different equivalent thicknesses and sizes in interventional radiology procedures. Using the human voxel phantom with a more accurate model of the eye and MCNPX software, eye lens doses of the radiologists who wearing different kinds of lead ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Hu P,Kong Y,Chen B,Liu Q,Zhuo W,Liu H

更新日期：2017-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The indoor radon concentrations and lung cancer incidence in Eleshnitza village and Blagoevgrad district of Bulgaria were examined in the study reported here. The Eleshnitza was the second largest uranium mining and milling region of the country. The geometric mean of indoor radon concentration in Eleshnitza (465 Bq/m...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Chobanova N,Ivanova K,Stojanovska Z,Atanasov T

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occupational exposure incurred by the radiation workers due to the external radiation is estimated using personal dosemeter placed on the human body during the monitoring period. In certain situations, it is required to determine whether the dosemeter alone was exposed accidentally/intentionally in radiation field...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Srivastava K,Soin S,Sapra BK,Ratna P,Datta D

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that there are great variations in radon concentrations in the soil gas on building sites. The concentration may sometimes vary by more than two orders of magnitude. The tectonic structure of the bedrock is one of the factors that influence the intensity of the radon outflow. The simple ARES geophysic...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Thinova L,Fronka A,Rovenska K

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radon gas concentrations in eight basements, four living rooms and four caves from different locations in Kabul and Panjsher, Afghanistan, were measured by using eight active radon exposure meters recently developed by the Helmholtz Center in Munich, Germany. The two-phase measurements lasted from a week to a year. In...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Tanha MR,Vahlbruch JW,Riebe B,Irlinger J,Rühm W,Khalid FR,Storai A,Walther C

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement of air samples may be used to assess risks of internal exposures, either by the use of workplace static air samplers (SAS) or personal air samplers (PAS). These measurements need to incorporate information on the physical and chemical nature of the aerosol, and the relationship between the sampled and ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Roberts GA,Bull RK

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has become increasingly evident from reports in the literature that there are many confounding factors capable of modulating radiation-induced non-targeted responses, such as the bystander effect and the adaptive response. In this paper, we examine recent data which suggest that the observation of non-targeted resp...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Sowa MB,Goetz W,Baulch JE,Lewis AJ,Morgan WF

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Owing to the introduction of new diagnostic procedures, such as computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), the individual dose caused by medical exposures has grown rapidly in the last years. This is especially a subject to radiation protection ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Hoeschen C,Mattsson S,Cantone MC,Mikuz M,Lacasta C,Ebel G,Clinthorne N,Giussani A

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we analyse the dose to 5034 patients (20 137 images) who underwent mammographic examinations with a full-field digital mammography (FFDM) system over a 2-y period. The information relevant to this study has been extracted from the image Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) headers. Entr...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Morán P,Chevalier M,Ten JI,Fernández Soto JM,Vañó E

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent major international intercomparison exercises on intake and internal dose assessments from monitoring data, the results calculated by different participants varied significantly. Based on this experience the need for harmonisation of the procedures has been formulated within an EU 5th Framework Programme res...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Doerfel H,Andrasi A,Bailey M,Blanchardon E,Cruz-Suarez R,Berkovski V,Castellani CM,Hurtgen C,LeGuen B,Malatova I,Marsh J,Stather J,Zeger J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A small, specialised amplifier using commercial integrated circuits (ICs) was developed to measure radiation dose and quality in real time using a microdosimetric ion chamber and the variance method. The charges from a microdosimetric ion chamber, operated in the current mode, were repeatedly collected for a fixed per...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Hsu WH,Braby LA,Reece WD

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity concentration of natural and anthropogenic radionuclides was determined in different vegetable samples, and foods derived from animal origin, from different locations in the four cities of Southern Tunisia, where large-scale phosphate industries are operating. The aim of the studies was to establish a bas...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Machraoui S,Mohan MP,Naregundi K,Labidi S

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, radioactivity levels of 35 different samples of 11 commonly used building materials in Samsun were measured by using a gamma spectrometry system. The analysis carried out with the high purity Germanium gamma spectrometry system. Radioactivity concentrations of (226)Ra, (232)Th and (40)K range from 6 to ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Tufan MÇ,Disci T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dose estimation in interventional neuroradiology can be useful to limit skin radiation injuries. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of entrance skin dose (ESD) maps in planning exposure condition optimisation. Thirteen cerebral angiography and five embolisation procedures were monitored, measuring ESD,...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Rampado O,Ropolo R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evaluation of exposure to extremely low-frequency (ELF) magnetic fields using broadband measurement techniques gives satisfactory results when the field has essentially a single frequency. Nevertheless, magnetic fields are in most cases distorted by harmonic components. This work analyses the harmonic components o...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Paniagua JM,Rufo M,Jiménez A,Pachón FT,Carrero J

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At least 10% of inhabitants in the Czech Republic are supplied with water from private sources (private wells, boreholes). With the increasing cost of water, the number of people using their own sources of drinking water will be likely to increase. According to the Decree of the State Office for Nuclear Safety about t...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Otahal P,Merta J,Burian I

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The observation of anomalies in the radon concentration in soil gas and ground water before earthquakes initiated systematic investigations on earthquake precursor phenomena. The question what is needed for a meaningful earthquake prediction as well as what types of precursory effects can be expected is shortly discus...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Friedmann H

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The International Electrotechnical Commission introduced the concepts of exposure index (EI), target exposure index (EIT) and deviation index (DI) to manage and optimize patient dose in real time. In this study, we have proposed an appropriate method for setting the EIT based on the Korean national diagnostic referenc...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Park H,Yoon Y,Kim J,Kim J,Jeong H,Tanaka N,Morishita J

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, the electromagnetic interference on hearing aids was evaluated. Electromagnetic (EM) immunity tests on different types of hearing aids were carried out, using signals of intensity and modulation comparable to those present in the environment. The purpose of this work is to characterise the interference, ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Facta S,Benedetto A,Anglesio L,d'Amore G

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Christian ethical tradition introduces a number of key values into the clinical context. Moreover, although some denominational differences exist, these are essentially differences of emphasis rather than of substance. Among the central values which the Christian tradition promotes are: the dignity of the person, ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Hogan L

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the frame of the EU Coordination Action CONRAD (coordinated network for radiation dosimetry), WP4 was dedicated to work on computational dosimetry with an action entitled 'Uncertainty assessment in computational dosimetry: an intercomparison of approaches'. Participants attempted one or more of eight problems. This...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： de Carlan L,Price R,Chartier JL,Kodeli I,Siebert B,Henninger J,Posselt J,Gualdrini G,Agosteo S,Bedogni R,Bordy JM,Cassette P,Ferrari P,Gomez Ros JM,Grosswendt B,Lacoste V,Pola A,Rollet S,Schultz F,Simakov SP,Tanne

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Fluorescent nuclear track detectors (FNTDs) as criticality dosimeters for both neutrons and gamma are further characterized in terms of angular dependence and quick dose assessment. The power spectrum integral depth profiles obtained from stacks of fluorescent images acquired within FNTDs exposed to a broad spectrum n...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Harrison J,Moreno B,Van Hoey O,Mihailescu LC,Vanhavere F,Million M,Fomenko V,Akselrod M

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00