Thorium isotopic analysis by alpha spectrometry.

abstract：:Radioiodine therapy is often the method of choice for treatment of hyperthyroidism because it is considered safe, is relatively inexpensive, and is convenient for the patient and except for occasional hypothyroidism, almost without side effects. Even though radioiodine treatment has been performed for over 50 years, t...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Jönsson H,Mattsson S

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This communication describes two new instruments, based on multiple active thermal neutron detectors arranged within a single moderator, that permit to unfold the neutron spectrum (from thermal to hundreds of MeV) and to determine the corresponding integral quantities with only one exposure. This makes them especially...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Gómez-Ros JM,Bedogni R,Bortot D,Domingo C,Esposito A,Introini MV,Lorenzoli M,Mazzitelli G,Moraleda M,Pola A,Sacco D

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermoluminescence (TL) characteristics of Y2O3:Er3+ nanophosphor exposed to UV radiations were investigated. Combustion synthesis method was employed to synthesise the nanophosphors. The confirmation for the pure cubic phase was done by powder X-ray diffraction. The particles formed were found to have 23.19 nm size a...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kaur M,Bisen DP,Brahme N,Singh P

更新日期：2017-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has performed a field survey at 11 sites located in Kosovo, where depleted uranium (DU) ammunitions were used by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) during the last Balkans conflict (1999). Soil sampling was performed to assess the spread of DU ground contamina...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Sansone U,Stellato L,Jia G,Rosamilia S,Gaudino S,Barbizzi S,Belli M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a large village, Veprin of the Bryansk region of Russia contaminated with radionuclides as a result of the Chernobyl accident, 137Cs concentration in food products of agricultural produce and natural origin was regularly measured, local inhabitants were polled on the composition of their diet, and the 137Cs content...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Travnikova IG,Bruk GJ,Shutov VN,Bazjukin AB,Balonov MI,Rahola T,Tillander M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The group of radiation victims who had received radiation injures similar to those of Chernobyl accident victims was evaluated in terms of retrospective cytogenetic biodosimetry in the long term period of from 17 y up to 50 y after irradiation. Based on the existing results of the long-term cytogenetic examination of ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Nugis VY,Kozlova MG,Nadejina NM,Galstyan IA,Nikitina VA,Khvostunov IK,Golub EV

更新日期：2019-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Thailand is predominantly an agricultural country. The Northern Region occupies the second largest cultivated land area in the country. To establish baseline data for future environmental monitoring, seventy-nine plant samples including vegetables, fruits and tobaccos and their relevant soils were collected from the m...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kritsananuwat R,Kranrod C,Chanyotha S,Ploykrathok T,Sriploy P

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Costs related to the decommissioning of nuclear power plants create a significant financial burden for nuclear power plant operators. This article discusses the various methodologies employed by selected European countries for financing of the liabilities related to the nuclear power plant decommissioning. The article...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Bemš J,Knápek J,Králík T,Hejhal M,Kubančák J,Vašíček J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study is to make a comparison of daily 238U excretion in urine among 115 active uranium miners and its modeled values obtained from inhalation intake of long-lived alpha emitters as measured by personal dosemeters and assessed by biokinetic models for different absorption parameters settings for inhaled...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kotík L,Becková V,Malátová I,Tomasek L

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients are exposed to significant radiation doses during diagnostic and interventional urologic procedures. This study aimed to measure patient entrance surface air kerma (ESAK) and to estimate the effective dose during intravenous urography (IVU), extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy (ESWL), and ascending urethogr...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Sulieman A,Barakat H,Zailae A,Abuderman A,Theodorou K

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:In this study, a method to discriminate between natural and other γ-ray sources from environmental γ-ray dose rate monitoring data was developed, and it was successfully applied to actual monitoring data around nuclear facilities. The environmental dose rate is generally monitored by NaI(Tl) detector systems in the lo...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kumagai K,Ookubo H,Kimura H

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the neonatal intensive care units (NICU), premature new-borns may be exposed to important doses. Because of their increased radiosensitivity and longer life expectancy, dose optimisation is of importance. The present study aimed at evaluating the dose of the most common radiographs in the Belgian NICU. Entrance sur...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Dabin J,Struelens L,Vanhavere F

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enhancing effect due to long-time irrigation with radium-containing groundwater on soil was investigated in this work. Samples from the Al-Qassim and Hail areas in Saudi Arabia were studied for their 226Ra and 228Ra inventories. Groundwater and soil samples were collected from 32 farms where agricultural activitie...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ebaid YY

更新日期：2020-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The internal dosimetry computer program internal dose assessment by computer (IDAC) for calculations of absorbed doses to organs and tissues as well as effective doses to patients from examinations with radiopharmaceuticals has been developed. The new version, IDAC2.0, incorporates the International Commission on Radi...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Andersson M,Johansson L,Minarik D,Mattsson S,Leide-Svegborn S

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of (220)Rn (thoron) progeny for human exposure has been widely recognised in the past decades. Since no stable equilibrium factor was found between indoor thoron and its progeny, and the concentration of thoron progeny varies with time, it is necessary to develop detectors for long-term measurement that...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Bi L,Tschiersch J,Meisenberg O,Wielunski M,Li JL,Shang B

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are several occurrences of thermal waters in the south-eastern part of Serbia, which are originating from igneous and metamorphic rocks. These waters are mainly used in balneology, but some of them are used for drinking purposes and in water supply to heat buildings, for greenhouses and to irrigate land. In this...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Nikolov J,Todorović N,Bikit I,Pantić TP,Forkapić S,Mrđa D,Bikit K

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Values for the dose equivalent are required for radiation protection purposes, but determination of such values can be quite difficult for high energy radiations. The accurate determination of personal dose equivalents in accelerator radiation fields requires the propel use of appropriate radiological quantities and u...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： McDonald JC

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One source of background signals, which are non-radiation related, is the reader system and it includes dark current, external contaminants and electronic spikes. These factors can induce signals equivalent to several hundredths of mSv. Mostly, the effects are minimised by proper design of the TLD reader, but some eff...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： German U,Weinstein M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the environmental contamination and contributory external exposure after the accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP), the concentrations of artificial radionuclides in soil samples from each area were analysed by gamma spectrometry. Six artificial radionuclides ((131)I, (134)Cs, (137)Cs, (129m...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Taira Y,Hayashida N,Yamashita S,Kudo T,Matsuda N,Takahashi J,Gutevitc A,Kazlovsky A,Takamura N

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current estimations of risk associated with medical imaging procedures rely on assessing the organ dose via direct measurements or simulation. The dose to each organ is assumed to be homogeneous. To take into account the differences in radiation sensitivities, the mean organ doses are weighted by a corresponding t...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Samei E,Li X,Chen B,Reiman R

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In diagnostic nuclear medicine, the biokinetics of the radiopharmaceutical (actually of the radionuclide) is determined for a number of representative patients. At therapy, it is essential to determine the patient's individual biokinetics of the radiopharmaceutical in order to calculate the absorbed doses to critical ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Mattsson S

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectrum deconvolution is an important task in ionizing radiation measurements, as the pulse height spectra, or, in general, the measured data from spectrometers or other measuring instruments are usually determined by the convolution of the response function with the fluence spectra. The method presented here for obt...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Behrens R,Reginatto M

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to contribute to the construction of a scenario regarding patient radiation exposure in Brazilian interventional radiology, aiming to provide data for the future drafting of specific legislation on interventional radiology because there is currently a lack of safety regulations for haemodynamics servic...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Navarro VC,Navarro MV,Maia AF

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main purpose of dose surveys has been to detect and bring down wide variation in radiation doses for any particular radiological examination and to avoid doses that are on higher side. Diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) have been used for over two decades as an aid in this objective. With very limited success that...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Rehani MM

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epithermal neutron beam at the LVR-15 reactor was designed for the Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) of cancers, but it has also been used for material testing. In the case where the beam is closed with two designed shutters, there is still an indispensable background in the irradiation room, which limits the m...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Marek M,Viererbl L

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An attempt towards an experimental set up which could provide the experimental data on correlation processes occurred simultaneously in two distanced DNA targets within a charged particle track is presented. A modified Jet Counter nanodosemeter was used in two experiments with carbon ions with mean energies of 52 and ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Pietrzak M,Pszona S,Bantsar A

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of double strand breaks (DSBs) and double-stranded DNA fragments after irradiation with high energy nitrogen ions was simulated with stochastic track generation and a high-order chromatin structure (HOCS) model representing a segment of interphase chromosome. The non-random distribution of DNA fragments is ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Khvostunov IK,Andreev SG,Eidelman Y

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystalline rocks can produce dangerous radiation levels on the basis of their content in radioisotopes. Here, we report radiological data from 10 metamorphic and igneous rock samples collected from the crystalline basement of the Peloritani Mountains (southern Italy). In order to evaluate the radiological properties ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Romano D,Caridi F,Di Bella M,Italiano F,Magazù S,Caccamo MT,Tripodo A,Faggio G,Grillo R,Triolo C,Messina G,Gattuso A,Sabatino G

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Dose response effects of diodes due to the high atomic number of silicon relative to water are investigated. While quality chances in the primary component of a megavoltage beam with depth are minimal. Compton scattered photons are shown to have a substantial effect on the quality leading to their enhanced absorption ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Yin Z,Hugtenburg RP,Beddoe AH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00