Current challenges of full field digital mammography.

abstract：:TRIPOLI-4.3 Monte Carlo transport code has been used to evaluate the QUADOS (Quality Assurance of Computational Tools for Dosimetry) problem P4, neutron and photon response of an albedo-type thermoluminescence personal dosemeter (TLD) located on an ISO slab phantom. Two enriched 6LiF and two 7LiF TLD chips were used a...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Lee YK

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation shielding assessments may underestimate the expected dose if some isotopes at trace level are not considered in the isotopes inventory of the shielded radioactive materials. Indeed, information about traces is not often available. Nevertheless, the activation of some minor isotopic traces may significantly c...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Bonin A,Tsilanizara A

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alanine dosimetry is now well established both as a reference and routine dosemeter for industrial irradiation processing. Accurate dosimetry under the relatively harsh conditions of industrial processing requires a characterisation of the parameters that influence the dosemeter response. The temperature of the doseme...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Desrosiers MF,Lin M,Cooper SL,Cui Y,Chen K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From August 2016 to June 2017, the Public Health England-Centre for Radiation Chemical and Environmental Hazards (PHE-CRCE), collaborating centre of the WHO, through its Radiation Hazards and Emergencies Department Emergency Response Group has successfully supported five WHO Joint External Evaluation (JEE) missions in...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： de Ruvo A,Cox D

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma-ray spectra were measured using a LaBr$_{3}$(Ce) spectrometer during the outage periods, aiming at quantifying the gamma source term of radiation workers' exposure, at the CANDU nuclear power reactors, for the purposes of eye lens dosimetry. The spectra were measured inside the boiler rooms, of the Bruce Power a...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Laranjeiro AS,Bohra F,Byun SH,Atanackovic J,Hanu AR

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Adequate dose management during computed tomography is important. In the present study, the dosimetric application software ImPACT was added to a functional calculator of the size-specific dose estimate and was part of the scan settings for the auto exposure control (AEC) technique. This study aimed to assess the prac...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kobayashi M,Asada Y,Matsubara K,Suzuki S,Matsunaga Y,Haba T,Kawaguchi A,Daioku T,Toyama H,Kato R

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some activities of EURADOS Working Group 9 (WG9) are presently funded by the European Commission (CONRAD project). The objective of WG9 is to promote and co-ordinate research activities for the assessment of occupational exposures to staff at workplaces in interventional radiology (IR) and nuclear medicine. For some o...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Vanhavere F,Carinou E,Donadille L,Ginjaume M,Jankowski J,Rimpler A,Sans Merce M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From feedback experience from recent radiation accident cases, in addition to biological dosimetry and physical dosimetry based on Monte Carlo calculations or experimental means, there is a need for complementary methods of dosimetry for radiation accident. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectrometry on bones o...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Trompier F,Bassinet C,Della Monaca S,Romanyukha A,Reyes R,Clairand I

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shin Kori unit 3 of Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co. is the pressurized water reactor of advanced power reactor 1400 (APR1400) in the Republic of Korea. A hypothetical accident was assumed for Shin Kori unit 3 to perform the time-dependent dose calculations along with the release rates of radionuclides to the environ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Uddin GMB,Kim J

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Digital breast tomosynthesis is a new three-dimensional (3D) breast-imaging modality that produces images of cross-sectional planes parallel to the detector plane from a limited number of X-ray projections over a limited angular range. Several technical and clinical parameters have not yet been completely optimised. S...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Shaheen E,Zanca F,Sisini F,Zhang G,Jacobs J,Bosmans H

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:This study characterises and evaluates an Al2O3:C-based optically stimulated luminescent dosemeter (OSLD) system, commercially known as the nanoDot™ dosemeter and the InLight® microStar reader, for personal and in vivo dose measurements in diagnostic radiology. The system characteristics, such as dose linearity, reade...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Wong JHD,Bakhsh M,Cheah YY,Jong WL,Khor JS,Ng KH

更新日期：2019-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The new RAMARN system for radon volume activity measurement was developed in 2003 and has been in use since then. RAMARN system consists of a plastic chamber that is conically cylindrical in shape and about 0.5 l in volume; a bare Kodak LR 115 is located on the bottom of this diffusion chamber. The size was chosen to ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Thinová L,Burian I

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental validation of a low-cost method for extrapolation and estimation of the maximal electromagnetic-field exposure from long-term evolution (LTE) radio base station installations are presented. No knowledge on downlink band occupation or service characteristics is required for the low-cost method. The meth...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Verloock L,Joseph W,Gati A,Varsier N,Flach B,Wiart J,Martens L

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of field tests with explosive dispersal of a radioactive substance (RaS) are presented. The paper deals with tests exploiting artificial obstacles as a continuation and expansion of the tests used in this study performed in free area described previously. The essential goal of the tests was to estimate the dis...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Rulik P,Prouza Z,Hovorka J,Beckova V,Cespirova I,Fronka A,Helebrant J,Hulka J,Kuca P,Skrkal J

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of 10 MeV high-current electron beams accelerated by the M-30 microtron on the luminescent properties of the α-Al₂O₃, Al₂O₃:Nb and Al₂O₃:Fe crystals has been studied. The effect of the long-term phosphorescence at room temperature has been found that can be used to monitor electron and gamma accelerator ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Maslyuk VT,Megela IG,Okunieva TO,Pekar JM,Pekar VJ

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to describe current risk management practices and policies across the world in relation to personal exposures from devices emitting radiofrequency fields, environmental exposures from fixed installations and exposures in the work environment. Data from 86 countries representing all WHO regions were col...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Dhungel A,Zmirou-Navier D,van Deventer E

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to estimate the radiation organ doses from occupational exposure in 94 396 Korean medical radiation workers. Data on badge doses (i.e. personal dose equivalent at 10 mm) between 1996 and 2011 obtained from a national dosimetry registry, survey data from 2012 to 2013, and organ dose conversion coeffici...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Choi Y,Shil Cha E,Jin Bang Y,Ko S,Ha M,Lee C,Jin Lee W

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Design principles for sub-slab depressurisation systems recently used in the Czech Republic for remediating existing buildings are described. Results of an efficiency analysis performed on the basis of data from >60 single-family houses are presented. It was found out that the efficiency varies between 70 and 98 %, wh...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Jiránek M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the mean glandular dose (MGD) and the compressed breast thickness (CBT) is commonly used for the presentation of mammographic dose survey results and could also be useful for the assessment of individual breast doses retrospectively in case of lack of necessary dosimetric instrumentation. The ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Bor D,Tukel S,Olgar T,Toklu T,Aydin E,Akyol O

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton beams (62 Mev) are used by the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud of the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics to treat eye melanoma tumours at the therapeutic facility called CATANA. A cylindrical slim tissue-equivalent proportional counter (TEPC) of 2.7 mm external diameter has been used to compare the radiation qua...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： De Nardo L,Moro D,Colautti P,Conte V,Tornielli G,Cuttone G

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TRADE project (TRiga Accelerator Driven Experiment), to be performed at the existing TRIGA reactor at ENEA Casaccia, has been proposed as a validation of the accelerator-driven system (ADS) concept. TRADE will be the first experiment in which the three main components of an ADS--the accelerator, spallation target ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Burn KW,Carta M,Casalini L,Kadi Y,Monti S,Nava E,Palomba M,Petrovich C,Picardi L,Rubbia C,Troiani F

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doses received by Cuban population due to exposure to the environmental sources of radiation were studied for their evaluation. Estimations of doses from the different components of the total dose were obtained and published. From the results obtained estimations of total doses to Cuban population from environmental r...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Tomás Zerquera J,Prendes Alonso M,Díaz Rizo O

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past decades, many specialised networks have formed to meet specific radioecological objectives, whether regional or sectorial (purpose-oriented). Regional networks deal with an array of radioecological issues related to their territories. Examples include the South Pacific network of radioecologists, and t...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Bréchignac F,Alexakhin R,Bollhöfer A,Frogg KE,Hardeman F,Higley K,Hinton TG,Kapustka LA,Kuhne W,Leonard K,Masson O,Nanba K,Smith G,Smith K,Strand P,Vandenhove H,Yankovich T,Yoshida S

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common problem in internal dosimetry occurs in routine monitoring, when it is required to estimate an intake from a measurement made at the end of a monitoring interval, and the time of intake is unknown. ICRP suggests that it should be assumed that the intake occurred in the middle of the monitoring period. However...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Birchall A,Puncher M,Marsh JW

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Albedo neutron dosemeter is the German official personal neutron dosemeter in mixed radiation fields where neutrons contribute to personal dose. In deep geological repositories for high-level nuclear waste, where neutrons can dominate the radiation field, it is of interest to investigate the performance of albedo neut...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Pang B,Becker F

更新日期：2017-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The glow curve shape of LiF:Mg,Cu,P (MCP) material is studied in this research. The study is focused on the effects of the heating rate on the dosimetric peaks. Different configurations of dosemeters (chips, cards and powder) are studied. The shifting of the dominant dosimetric peak is observed and analysed. The curve...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Luo LZ,Velbeck KJ,Moscovitch M,Rotunda JE

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fast assessment of the dose received by exposed persons is crucial in radiological accidents, so the 48 h of cell culture in conventional cytogenetic dosimetry in addition to some limitations after high doses becomes a disadvantage. The premature chromosome condensation (PCC) assay permits to analyse enough cells ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Romero I,Lamadrid AI,González JE,García O,Voisin P,Roy L

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The starting point of the Spanish experience in the study of High Background Radiation Areas is the development of a nationwide indoor radon survey carried out in 1988. This campaign, belonging to the first Spanish Radon Framework, consisted of approximately 2000 indoor radon measurements which represented a valuable ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Sáinz C,Quindós LS,Fernández PL,Gómez J,Fuente I,Quindós L,Matarranz JL

更新日期：2007-01-01 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