Set-up of a passive Bonner sphere system for neutron spectrometry at mixed fields with predominant photon component based on activation detector.

abstract：:Gamma spectrometry of well water was done to measure the activity concentrations of gamma-emitters 226Ra and 228Ra from 238U and 232Th series, respectively, and 40K in their waters. Measurements were done using high-purity (HPGe) co-axial detectors (Canberra, GC 2018-7500 ) coupled to Canberra Multichannel Analyser sy...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ajayi OS,Owolabi TP

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of the world's population relies on surface water or large public supply systems of groundwater, where radon is low and a guidance value for radon in drinking water is not necessary. However, the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) recently issued a dose coefficient for radon ingest...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Chen J

更新日期：2019-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to compare image quality and patient dose in cardiac computed tomography angiography (CTA) in terms of volume computed tomography dose index (CTDI vol), dose length product (DLP) and effective dose, when changing from filtered back projection (FBP) to adaptive iterative dose reduction ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Dyakov I,Stoinova V,Groudeva V,Vassileva J

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Material activation assessment of a proposed accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy facility was performed using the FLUKA Monte Carlo code to quantify the magnitude of the problem in terms of the isotope inventories, induced activities, and residual dose rates. Two simplified operation scenarios were conside...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Lai BL,Sheu RJ

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two criticality dosimetry systems were tested by Czech participants during the intercomparison held in Valduc, France, June 2002. The first consisted of the thermoluminescent detectors (TLDs) (Al-P glasses) and Si-diodes as passive neutron dosemeters. Second, it was studied to what extent the individual dosemeters use...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Frantisek S,Jaroslav T

更新日期：2004-01-01 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 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：:On 27 occasions, radiation doses were measured for a family member designated as the 'caregiver' for a patient receiving high-dose radioiodine outpatient therapy for differentiated thyroid carcinoma. For 25 of the administrations, patients received 3.7 GBq of (131)I. Radiation doses for the designated caregivers were ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Marriott CJ,Webber CE,Gulenchyn KY

更新日期：2007-01-01 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 purpose of this study is to measure the environmental radiation exposure in and surrounding the room of patients treated with (131)I. Absorbed dose rates were measured using thermoluminescence dosemeters, type TLD-200 (CaF(2):Dy), in a continuous monitoring programme. It is found that the estimated annual shallow ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Abu-Khaled YS,Sandouqa AS,Haddadin IM

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high-energy programme of the HINDAS European project has provided a large amount of experimental data and led to a better understanding of the spallation reaction mechanism and the development of more reliable spallation models. These data, or the new models, which have been implemented into high-energy transport ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Leray S,Boudard A,David JC,Donadille L,Villagrasa C,Volant C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Classical aerosol physics predicts that it is impossible to observe noticeable values of the unattached fraction of decay products of thoron at typical concentrations of aerosol particles. The experimental data have shown that the unattached fraction of the thoron decay products in a monazite storage facility is in th...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Zhukovsky M,Vasyanovich M,Onishchenko A

更新日期：2020-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a compartmental model for estimating the ingestion dose, due to 137Cs, arising from the consumption of marine fish in Hong Kong. 137Cs is one of the more important radionuclides released in routine liquid effluents discharged from the Guangdong Nuclear Power Station at Daya Bay, which began commerc...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Poon CB,Au SM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most used passive detectors for Radon measurement are the CR39s, both for the good stability of the material and for the practicality of use. But, commercial reading systems are expensive and not always fast. The aim of the present work was the development of a method for a rapid, efficient and economic evaluation...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Sabbarese C,Ambrosino F,Roca V

更新日期：2020-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Interventional cardiology procedures are usually associated with high patient doses and even deterministic radiation effects may occur. Expensive digital flat panels are preferably used to lower doses, and Athens General Hospital has recently installed one. However, this study shows that it is the cardiologists' pract...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Mavrikou I,Kottou S,Tsapaki V,Neofotistou V

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CaSO4:Dy is a reliable high-sensitive themoluminescent phosphor useful for low-level and high-level radiation measurements as it exhibits fading free linear dose response with a single glow peak at ~230°C in these dose regions. For large-scale radiation protection dosimetry service, it is embedded in Teflon matrix wit...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Lakshmanan A

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Health Physics Measurements Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has initiated a study of neutron reference fields at selected US Department of Energy (DOE) calibration facilities. To date, field characterisation has been completed at five facilities. These fields are traceable to the National Instit...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Olsher RH,McLean TD,Mallett MW,Seagraves DT,Gadd MS,Markham RL,Murphy RO,Devine RT

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accreditation of the Competent Incorporation Measuring Body at Jülich includes incorporation monitoring by means of direct measurements of the body activity as well as by means of indirect determination of the body activity by radiochemical analysis of excreta samples. In both testing areas, it proved to be very u...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Hill P,Froning M,Schläger M,Zoriy MV,Lennartz R

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diamond is a material with extreme physical properties. Its radiation hardness, chemical inertness and tissue equivalence qualify it as an ideal material for radiation dosimetry. In the present work, the optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and thermoluminescence (TL) characteristics of a 10 microm thick CVD diamon...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Preciado-Flores S,Schreck M,Meléndrez R,Chernov V,Bernal R,Cruz-Vázquez C,Cruz-Zaragoza E,Barboza-Flores M

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:An optical fibre radiation dosemeter has been developed that utilises optically stimulated luminescence and scintillation to provide independent, remote, real-time dose measurements. The radiation sensitive element consists of a 1 mm long, 0.4 mm diameter piece of copper-ion-doped fused quartz that is attached to a 1 ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Huston AL,Justus BL,Falkenstein PL,Miller RW,Ning H,Altemus R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work aims to assess the effective doses from long-term continual radon monitoring in six European caves (Slovenia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic), including influencing environmental factors. Caves are important radiation protection subjects because of elevated radon activity concentration (~kBq/m3), mos...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ambrosino F,Thinová L,Briestenský M,Sabbarese C

更新日期：2020-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) through the International Action Plan on Radiation Protection of Patients and the International Commission on Radiological Protection have for some time carried out important efforts to assure that in the medical applications of the ionising radiations, the optimisation of...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Blanco S,Mora P,Almonte N,Benavente T,Benson N,Blanco D,Cárdenas J,Defaz Gómez Y,Edding O,Escobar C,Fonseca M,Gamarra M,García Aguilar J,Khoury HJ,Quintero AR,Roas Zuniga N,Zaire E,Nader A

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:In environmental radiation monitoring, the time-variable natural gamma radiation background complicates the nuclide identification and analysis of a gamma spectrum. A full spectrum analysis based on the noise adjusted singular value decomposition method for the description of the time-variable background and adjustmen...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Reinhardt S

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, an approach to compute the dose conversion coefficients (DCCs) is described for the computational voxel phantom 'High-Definition Reference Korean-Man' (HDRK-Man) using artificial neural networks (ANN). For this purpose, the voxel phantom was implemented into the Monte Carlo (MC) transport toolkit GEAN...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kadri O,Manai K

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of LiF:Mg,Ti thermoluminescence dosemeters (TLDs) according to the high-temperature ratio (HTR) method enables the determination of the dose-average linear energy transfer (LET), the mean quality factor and the dose equivalent in mixed radiation fields of unknown composition. The neutron contribution is ass...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Hajek M,Berger T,Vana N

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this work is to compare different methods for shielding calculation in computed tomography (CT). The BIR-IPEM (British Institute of Radiology and Institute of Physics in Engineering in Medicine) and NCRP (National Council on Radiation Protection) method were used for shielding thickness calculation. Sca...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ciraj-Bjelac O,Arandjic D,Kosutic D

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Managing radiation injuries following a catastrophic event where large numbers of people may have been exposed to life-threatening doses of ionizing radiation relies on the availability of biodosimetry to assess whether individuals need to be triaged for care. Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) tooth dosimetry is a...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Schreiber W,Petryakov SV,Kmiec MM,Feldman MA,Meaney PM,Wood VA,Boyle HK,Flood AB,Williams BB,Swartz HM

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00