Harmonization of individual dosimetry quality control within metrology system of a small country.

abstract：:Absorbed dose and average linear energy transfer (LET) were assessed by means of (7)LiF:Mg,Ti (TLD-700) thermoluminescent (TL) detectors for different panels on-board the Russian Segment of the International Space Station in the timeframe between March and November 2002 (233 d). A technique is presented to correct the...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Hajek M,Berger T,Fugger M,Fürstner M,Vana N,Akatov Y,Shurshakov V,Arkhangelsky V

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1995, requirements on energy-efficient building construction were established in Russian Building Codes. In the course of time, utilisation of such technologies became prevailing, especially in multi-storey building construction. According to the results of radon survey in buildings constructed meeting new requi...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Vasilyev AV,Yarmoshenko IV,Zhukovsky MV

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To estimate the absorbed dose in normal organs and inflamed tissue following i.v. administration of [201Tl](III)-DTPA-HIgG by using biodistribution data in inflamation bearing rats was attempted. The percentages of injected dose per gram of each organ were calculated. The medical internal radiation dose formulation was...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Khorrami Moghaddam A,Reza Jalilian A,Hayati V,Shanehsazzadeh S

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CsBr phosphor ceramics doped with different luminescence centres such as In2O3, Eu2O3, EuCl3, SmCl3, TbCl3, GdCl3 or NdCl3 as the candidate for a new optically-stimulable phosphor for medical X-ray imaging sensor were prepared using a conventional ceramic fabrication process. It was found that X-ray-irradiated Eu-dope...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kurata N,Kubota N,Takei Y,Nanto H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main objective of this comparative study was to evaluate the national quality assurance program for X-ray diagnostic radiology in Syrian governmental hospitals. Two periods were covered in this study, the first period was from 1986 to 1998 (52 hospitals and 149 X-ray machines were considered) and the second period...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kharita MH,Khedr MS,Wannus KM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of a Monte Carlo code for the analysis and interpretation of whole body counting measurements is described. The sources of error are analysed and commented to show how a counting geometry can be improved by improving accuracy and precision in a measurement. The effects of body size, contamination distribution ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Genicot JL,Koukouliou V,Carinou E

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:The results of measurements, which were performed at angiography departments, are presented. The aim of this work was not only to assess patient exposure but also to perform a survey of the occupational exposures of physicians during common angiography examinations of the skull, chest, abdomen and limbs. Patient data,...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Zakova M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) wastes with different radiological characteristics are generated in several industries. The appropriate options for NORM waste management including disposal options should be discussed and established based on the act and regulation guidelines. Several studies calculate...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Jeong J,Ko NY,Cho DK,Baik MH,Yoon KH

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method to estimate plutonium content from a limited number of samples of lungs and pulmonary lymph nodes obtained at autopsies of former Mayak Production Association (MPA) workers is described. Historically from one to five samples of lung lobes and one to three respiratory lymph nodes (bronchopulmonary, tracheobron...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Sokolova AB,Suslova KG,Miller SC

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:European Radiation Dosimetry Group e.V. (EURADOS) survey on individual monitoring data and dose assessment has been carried out for 550 foreigners returning home after being exposed in Japan to intakes of radionuclides (mainly (131)I, (132)I, (132)Te, (134)Cs and (137)Cs) as a consequence of the Fukushima Daiichi NPP ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Lopez MA,Fojtik P,Franck D,Osko J,Gerstmann U,Scholl C,Lebacq AL,Breustedt B,Del Risco Norrlid L

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has become increasingly evident from reports in the literature that there are many confounding factors capable of modulating radiation-induced non-targeted responses, such as the bystander effect and the adaptive response. In this paper, we examine recent data which suggest that the observation of non-targeted resp...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Sowa MB,Goetz W,Baulch JE,Lewis AJ,Morgan WF

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Training in radiation protection is widely recognised as one of the basic components of optimisation programmes for medical exposures. Occupational and patient radiation risks in interventional radiology can be quite high and international bodies have shown concern on this item. Following recommendations of the Intern...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Vano E,Gonzalez L

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physics foundations of hadronic interactions as implemented in most Monte Carlo codes are presented together with a few practical examples. The description of the relevant physics is presented schematically split into the major steps in order to stress the different approaches required for the full understanding o...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ferrari A,Sala PR

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：: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：:Radioactive contamination of the environment occurred in the early fifties as a result of the releases from the Mayak plutonium production complex (Southern Urals, Russia). The releases of liquid wastes into the Techa river resulted in chronic exposure of 30,000 residents of the riverside communities. Since 1951 90Sr ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Degteva MO,Kozheurov VP,Tolstykh EI

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monte Carlo simulations were used to assess secondary neutron doses received by patients treated with proton therapy for ocular melanoma and craniopharyngioma. MCNPX calculations of out-of-field doses were done for ∼20 different organs considering realistic treatment plans and using computational phantoms representati...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Farah J,Sayah R,Martinetti F,Donadille L,Lacoste V,Hérault J,Delacroix S,Nauraye C,Vabre I,Lee C,Bolch WE,Clairand I

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement of indoor radon concentrations were performed in the dwellings of the Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, India by using LR-115 type II Solid-State Nuclear Track Detectors in the bare mode. The annual average indoor radon concentrations in the dwellings are found to vary from 114 to 400 Bq m(-3) with an avera...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Rani A,Singh S,Duggal V

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron paramagnetic resonance spectra and dose-response curves are presented for a variety of wallboard samples obtained from different manufacturing facilities, as well as for source gypsum and anhydrite. The intensity of the CO(3)(-) paramagnetic centre (G2) is enhanced with gamma radiation. Isothermal decay curve...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Mistry R,Thompson JW,Boreham DR,Rink WJ

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the results of the simulation of a radiophotoluminescent (RPL) dosemeter with the Monte Carlo transport code MCNPX. The aim of this study is to calculate the response with MCNPX of the RPL dosemeter in terms of equivalent doses H(p) (0.07) and H(p)(10) using X-ray photon radiation qualities N seri...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Hocine N,Donadille L,Huet C,Itié C,Clairand I

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel single cell irradiation system using carbon nanotube (CNT) based field emission technology is proposed. The system can produce electron microbeam at a large range of pulsation frequencies and dose rates with energy between 20 and 60 keV. Different from any existing single beam microbeam device, the CNT-based s...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Chang S,Zhang J,Bordelon D,Schreiber E,Cox A,Zhou O

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Chinese head phantom (CHP) is constructed for evaluating the specific absorption rate (SAR) by the wireless transceivers. The dimensions of the head phantom are within 4 % difference compared with the 95th percentile data from the China's standard. The shell's thickness and the configuration of the pinna are the sam...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ma Y,Wang Y,Shao Q,Li C,Wu T

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dose metrics on intraoral and panoramic dental radiography were analyzed to preliminarily indicate dose trend of dental radiology equipment in Indonesia. Measurements were performed in 71 healthcare institutions involving a total of 92 dental X-ray devices. Imaging modes are categorized into 'low dose' and 'high dose'...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Lubis LE,Bayuadi I,Bayhaqi YA,Ardiansyah F,Setiadi AR,Sugandi RD,Craig LA,Nasir A,Basith RA,Pawiro SA,Soejoko DS

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flat-panel X-ray detectors for fluoroscopy represent a modern imaging equipment that is being implemented in paediatric cardiac catheterisation laboratories. Infants and children represent a group of patients with a high radiosensitivity. A survey of 273 (126 diagnostic and 147 therapeutic) paediatric catheterisations...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Dragusin O,Gewillig M,Desmet W,Smans K,Struelens L,Bosmans H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method was developed to determine HT deposition velocity and to investigate how environmental factors affect the deposition processes including the diffusion into soil and the biochemical conversion by microorganisms to HTO in soil. This method, using a chamber and two tritium samplers, enables determination of ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Koarashi J,Amano H,Andoh M,Iida T,Koma T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occupational radiological protection (RP) is still a challenge in several clinical practices. ICRP has included specific recommendations and advice for occupational protection in most of the documents published in recent years and its current programme of work includes the preparation of documents with specific conten...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Vano E

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to check developed software tools, it was necessary to compare estimates of statistical characteristics of annual absorbed plutonium internal doses obtained by PANDORA and IMBA software with the same original data. The results were compared from dose calculations of five cases with different initial data on p...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Vostrotin VV,Birchall A,Zhdanov AV,Puncher M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computed tomography dose index w and dose length product were recorded for the purpose of developing diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) for radiation dose optimisation. The study was conducted in three radiology departments with CT centres in Northern Nigeria. Data were collected from 54 consenting adult participants ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Garba I,Engel-Hills P,Davidson F,Tabari AM

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To aid in protecting patients from unnecessary exposures and to reduce radiation burdens to the public, a system for tracking a patient's medical exposure history and related radiation doses would be a useful tool. A patient-centred exposure registry, the Patient Exposure Registry (PER), is a mechanism that provides t...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Chen J,Moir D,Cornett J

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00