Use of various microdosimetric models for the prediction of radon induced damage in human lungs.

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：:This study compares the effective doses from a MIRD-type stylised model with those derived from the scaled-down version of the tomographic VIP-Man model for photon, electron, neutron and proton beams. The effective dose results from these two models show that they differ from each other within approximately 10% for co...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Xu XG,Chao TC,Bozkurt A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to provide reference fields for the ionising radiation, PTB operates the ion accelerator facility. Referring to high energy photons, reference fields according to International Organization for Standardization 4037 series are produced. The neutron component of the 6-7 MeV photon field (R-F), which is produced...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Röttger S,Heiske A,Nolte R

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：:Radiation dose monitoring for radiography students during clinical training is necessary to demonstrate the extent of radiation protection issues present, as well as to instill in them an awareness of safe practices that they will carry with them throughout their careers. The study assess the radiation dose incurred b...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Abuzaid MM,Elshami W,Steelman C

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the primary factor contributing to the internal effective dose in the human organism is contaminated food, the control of radionuclides in food represents the most important means of protection. This study was conducted to determine the levels of the dietary exposure of the Lebanese population to gamma-emitting ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Nasreddine L,El Samad O,Hwalla N,Baydoun R,Hamzé M,Parent-Massin D

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown how the decision threshold, the detection limit and the limits of a coverage interval - summarily called the characteristic limits - and, in addition, the best estimate and the associated standard uncertainty of a non-negative radiation measurand are to be calculated by using the Monte Carlo (MC) method in...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Weise K,Kanisch G,Michel R,Schläger M,Schrammel D,Täschner M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the contemporary indoor radon activity concentration and the surface-deposited 210Po activity were measured in 65 Romanian dwellings. The activity of trapped 210Po on the glass surface was measured using the (CR-LR) difference technique. The retrospective radon activity concentration estimated on...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Dicu T,Burghele BD,Lupulescu D,Cucos A

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The W values of protons in liquid water were calculated for energies from 0.1 keV to 10 MeV using the continuous slowing down approximation as well as three models for the calculation of the differential ionisation cross-sections of water for protons published in recent years. The W values determined by means of the t...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Baek WY,Grosswendt B

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:An invited panel discussed with the participants of the Symposium their views on the impact of non-targeted effects on the relationship between microdosimetry and risk. The discussion was wide ranging and lively, with divergences of opinion. At one end was the view that understanding microscopic features and distribut...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Goodhead DT

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：:Bonner sphere spectrometers (BSSs) are employed in neutron spectrometry and dosimetry since many years. Recent developments have seen the addition to a conventional BSS of one or more detectors (moderator plus thermal neutron counter) specifically designed to improve the overall response of the spectrometer to neutron...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Agosteo S,Dimovasili E,Fassò A,Silari M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual neutron dosimetry represents one of the current difficulties in the field of radiological protection of workers. Since March 1999, the regulatory requirements in France for active (i.e. operational) dosimetry have been those of ICRP Publication 60, applicable from May 2000, necessitating the introduction of...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Lahaye T,Cutarella D,Ménard S,Bolognese-Milsztajn T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the findings of the radiation situation analysis on-site near Sysoeva and Razbojnik Bays. The results of radiation monitoring performed by radiological laboratory of DalRAO and studies performed by the experts from the Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Centre have been used in the course of an...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Shandala NK,Kiselev SM,Lucyanec AI,Titov AV,Seregin VA,Isaev DV,Akhromeev SV

更新日期：2011-07-01 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, the total exposure due to signals within GSM 900, GSM 1800, CDMA-1900 and 3G-2100 frequency bands at 200 m from the foot of 120, 100 and 80 base station masts in the Nigerian cities of Lagos, Ibadan and Abuja, respectively, was assessed. A calibrated hand-held spectrum analyser was used to measure the l...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ayinmode BO,Farai IP

更新日期：2020-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Dose conversions were studied for dosimetry of atomic bomb survivors based upon electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements of tooth enamel. Previously analysed data had clarified that the tooth enamel dose could be much larger than other organ doses from a low-energy photon exposure. The radiation doses to other organ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Takahashi F,Sato K

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this article is to present initial occupational dose values using digital active personal dosimeters for medical staff during adult interventional cardiology procedures in a public hospital in Chile. Personal dose equivalent Hp(10) over the lead apron of physician, nurse and radiographer were measured...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ubeda C,Morales C,Gutiérrez D,Oliveira M,Manterola C

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In radiotherapy with carbon ions, biological effects of treatments have to be predicted. For this purpose, one of the most used models is the local effect model (LEM) developed at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Germany. At the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy, the reliability of the last ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Russo G,Attili A,Bourhaleb F,Marchetto F,Peroni C,Schmitt E,Bertrand D

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：:The hybrid cell line CGL1 is the only cell line which allows quantitation of neoplastic transformation in human cells. Hybrid cells were exposed to 3.4 MeV alpha particles or to mammography X rays (29 kV(p)) and both survival and neoplastic cell transformation were assayed. For comparison, previously published data ob...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Frankenberg-Schwager M,Spieren S,Pralle E,Frankenberg D

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stringent standards of hygiene must be applied in medical institutions, especially at operating blocks or during interventional radiology procedures. Medical equipment, including personal dosemeters that have to be worn by medical staff during such procedures, needs therefore to be sterilised. In this study, the effec...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kopeć R,Bubak A,Budzanowski M,Sas-Bieniarz A,Szumska A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalent algorithm for the estimation of beta dose, which in turn is used for estimation of skin dose for exposures involving beta radiations was observed to significantly overestimate the dose in individual monitoring based on CaSO4:Dy TLD badge in India. A new algorithm has been developed by estimating the corr...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Rakesh RB,Kumar M,Sneha C,Ratna P,Datta D

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radionuclide concentrations of ²²⁶Ra, ²³²Th and ⁴⁰K in different types of building materials used in Egypt were measured using gamma-ray spectroscopy. The results showed relatively moderate radionuclide concentrations for all samples except granite, which showed extremely high concentrations of 78.75 ± 2.36, 2.82 ± 0....

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Hassan NM,Mansour NA,Fayez-Hassan M

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the blood tritium level as an estimate of free water tritium (FWT) and organically bound tritium (OBT) in human soft tissues, a tritiated amino acid mixture (TAA) and tritiated water (HTO) were injected or orally administered to mice. Relatively high tritium retention in the blood was found after TAA injection...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Saito M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 2001 and 2003 a 3.2 kJ dense plasma focus (DPF) device has been built at the Montecuccolino Laboratory of the Department of Energy, Nuclear and Environmental Control Engineering (DIENCA) of the University of Bologna. A DPF is a pulsed device in which deuterium nuclear fusion reactions can be obtained through t...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Frignani M,Mostacci D,Rocchi F,Sumini M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AVIDOS is a computer code used for the dose assessment of aircraft crew exposed to cosmic radiation. The code employs a multiparameter model built upon simulations of cosmic radiation exposure done using the FLUKA Monte Carlo code. AVIDOS calculates both ambient dose equivalent H*(10) and effective dose E for flight r...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Latocha M,Beck P,Rollet S

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical X-ray films are continued to be the major image receptors in diagnostic radiology in India. About 9×10⁶ m² of medical X-ray films are used per annum for diagnostic imaging in India, and its magnitude may further increase as the number of diagnostic X-ray units is increasing rapidly. A national quality control ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Sharma R,Sharma SD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Bayesian unfolding has been applied to ionisation distributions due to 5.4 MeV alpha particles in a 20-nm site obtained using Monte Carlo simulations, taking into account different detection efficiency conditions. The ideal case of a target volume with uniform efficiency has been investigated to study the dependence...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： De Nardo L,Lesimple M,Canella S,Grosswendt B

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00