Development of a voxel phantom of Japanese adult male in upright posture.

abstract：:In order to investigate the influence of the static electricity on the measurement using passive radon detector, detectors were charged at the surface of chamber and its CR-39 elements respectively on purpose before the exposure in this study. The results of in-chamber experiments revealed that the static electricity ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Chen B,Zhao C,Fan D,Zhuo W

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To find appropriate substitutions for the expensive plastics of A-150 and rexolite used in the construction of thick gas electron multiplier (THGEM)-based tissue-equivalent proportional counters, in the present work, the responses of a THGEM-based microdosimetric detector made of A-150 and rexolite and three others co...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Moslehi A,Raisali G,Lamehi M

更新日期：2017-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:With the availability of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Radon Emanation Standard with a content of approximately 5000 Bq of 226Ra, it is possible to build a flow through a practical radon test chamber. A standard glove box with four gloves and a transfer port is used. Air is pumped through a...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kotrappa P,Stieff F

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Radon exposure in schools is different from that in dwellings because the residence pattern is very different each other. So, when effective dose is calculated in schools, different approach should be considered from in dwellings. The aim of this study was to estimate actual effective dose due to inhaled radon conside...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Lee ER,Chang BU,Kim YJ

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Study of Occupational Radiation Exposure (ESOREX) project was initiated by the general directive EC DG XI and carried out by the Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, Germany (BfS). It consists of surveys carried out in the 28 European states. The study provides comparable descriptions of the national administrat...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Frasch G,Anatschkowa E,Kragh P

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields, 11 microwave (MW), 4 short-wave diathermy and 15 magneto therapy devices were analysed in eight physiotherapy departments. Measurements taken at consoles and environmental mapping showed values above European Directive 2004/40/EC and ACGIH exposure limits at a...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Maccà I,Scapellato ML,Carrieri M,Pasqua di Bisceglie A,Saia B,Bartolucci GB

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potassium-40 constitutes the main natural source of potassium present in the body, which influences the effective dose received by people. With the aim of assessing the contribution of this component to the doses received by the Cuban population, a study intended to assess the doses was developed. For this purpose, a ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Zerquera JT,Alonso MP,Bejerano GL,López JO,Rodríguez NA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to calculate total cruising route effective doses using three commonly used algorithm codes CARI-6, EPCARD and SIEVERT. Further, the impact of flight cruising duration, altitude and latitude on the estimated effective doses will also be investigated. A total of 24 commercial UAE flight data we...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Dalah EZ,Elmahdi HM,Al Humaidan KS,Semerjian L

更新日期：2019-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Dosimetric monitoring and protection of the personnel involved into interventional procedures is one of the key issues nowadays, yet doses received by their brains were left without rigorous consideration so far. The paper is the fast track of the results of the pilot study of possible magnitude of operator's doses wi...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Chumak V,Morgun A,Bakhanova E,Voloskyi V

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An international programme of work is currently under way to develop methods for calculating doses to infants from ingestion of radionuclides present in mothers' milk. This paper considers the special case of the alkaline earth elements. Models have been developed for 45Ca, 90Sr and 226Ra and the sensitivity of result...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Smith TJ,Phipps AW,Fell TP,Harrison JD

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of various experiments which characterise the optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) signals from polymineral fine grains of a Martian soil simulant sample (JSC Mars-1) are presented. The blue-green stimulated luminescence signal has greater thermal stability than the infrared stimulated luminescence sign...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Banerjee D,Blair M,Lepper K,McKeever SW

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique of alpha spectrometry is used to detect alpha particles and to determine their energy. In this way the technique is able to provide simultaneously quantitative information (i.e. the activity) and qualitative information (the identity) on any radionuclide that emits an alpha particle. The longer-lived nat...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Gingell T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One encouraging way, at present, to put the investigation of ionisation-yield formation in sub-cellular structures or, at least, in nanometric volumes of liquid water on an experimental basis is the use of highly sophisticated counters filled with gases at low operating pressure to simulate target volumes a few nm in ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Grosswendt B

更新日期：2002-01-01 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 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 March 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident occurred and a large amount of radionuclides was released. To study its effect, we estimated the internal exposure due to intake of tap water in the early phase after the accident. As the number of measured values of tap water following the accident was...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kawai M,Yoshizawa N,Suzuki G

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The focus of nuclear emergency planning in Austria has been so far on mitigating effects of widespread contamination (e.g. after NPP accidents); however, these plans did not contain provisions on the medical management of an acute radiation syndrome. To close this gap, a 'Medical Radiation Emergency Plan' was created ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ziegler A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand the potential health effect of radiation from Fukushima nuclear disaster, a group of people living in Japan during and after the accident were investigated 1 y after the accident. The venous blood samples were extracted in tune from 156 tested persons living in Tokyo and Niigata with average age...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Chen Y,Zhou PK,Zhang XQ,Wang ZD,Wang Y,Darroudi F

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A passive Bonner sphere system (BSS), based on thermal neutron activation detectors, was developed to perform neutron spectrometry in pulsed and very intense (n-gamma) fields with predominant photon component, as those produced by high energy (>10 MV) medical linear electron accelerators. In this paper, a description ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Amgarou K,Lacoste V,Muller H,Fernández F

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：:Estimation of the effective inhalation dose of short half-life radon progeny requires the quantification of radon equilibrium equivalent activity concentrations (EEC, Ceq). The aim of the present study is to develop new methodology that focuses on spot measurements to determine EEC from single gross alpha counts and d...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Sakoda A,Ishimori Y,Kanzaki N,Tanaka H

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron emission tomography (PET) is a non-invasive medical imaging technique normally used for diagnostic purposes to determine the location and concentration of physiologically active compounds in a human body. An unshielded cyclotron is used for PET at the Clinica Universitaria de Navarra to produce short-lived po...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Fernández F,Amgarou K,Domingo C,García MJ,Quincoces G,Martí-Climent JM,Méndez R,Barquero R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents the seasonal variations of indoor radon levels in dwellings located in the Ramallah province and East Jerusalem suburbs, Palestine. The measurements were performed during the summer and winter of the year 2006/2007 using CR-39 solid-state-nuclear-track detectors. The total number of investigated bu...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Leghrouz AA,Abu-Samreh MM,Shehadeh AK

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Iodine thyroid blocking (ITB) suppresses the uptake of iodine to the thyroid and reduces internal doses after radioiodine intake; however, its disturbance of thyroid biokinetics causes considerable uncertainty in the use of dosimetric data intended for assessment of unblocked normal thyroid. To more accurately assess ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kwon TE,Park M,Jung GH,Chung Y,Ha WH,Jin YW

更新日期：2019-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper compares several methods for estimation of the effective indoor dose of gamma radiation from building materials. It was found that specific dose ratios proposed for 3 cm thick layers in one recommendation gives 2.8 times lower value of gamma dose than other methods. The most common case is that granite has ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Krmar M,Milić K,Arsenić I,Hansman J

更新日期：2020-10-16 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：:In 1993, ICRP-65 recommended that dose conversion of radon exposure should be based on the comparison of detriments between radon exposure and effective dose. The lifetime detriment from the radon exposure was projected according to the epidemiological studies of uranium miners then available. The projection model (GS...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Tomasek L,Rogel A,Laurier D,Tirmarche M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00