Panel discussion: Do non-targeted effects impact the relation between microdosimetry and risk?

abstract：:In Austria a comprehensive study on radiation exposure in waterworks was conducted. The aim of this study was to evaluate the risks for the affected employees. On the basis of geographical, geological and hydrological aspects, 21 waterworks were selected. A total of 85 passive short-term measurements and measurements ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Michael S,Andreas B,Claudia S,Fabian R,Ringer W,Josef MF

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative analysis of radiation doses determined by tooth enamel electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and by an acknowledged analytical method is performed for individual doses and for average doses in population of some settlements of the Bryansk region (Russia), which have been contaminated after t...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ivannikov AI,Skvortsov VG,Stepanenko VF,Zhumadilov KSh

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Costs related to the decommissioning of nuclear power plants create a significant financial burden for nuclear power plant operators. This article discusses the various methodologies employed by selected European countries for financing of the liabilities related to the nuclear power plant decommissioning. The article...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Bemš J,Knápek J,Králík T,Hejhal M,Kubančák J,Vašíček J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The observation of anomalies in the radon concentration in soil gas and ground water before earthquakes initiated systematic investigations on earthquake precursor phenomena. The question what is needed for a meaningful earthquake prediction as well as what types of precursory effects can be expected is shortly discus...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Friedmann H

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various radionuclides are used in nuclear medicine in different diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Recently, interest has grown in therapeutic agents for some interesting applications in nuclear medicine. Internal dose models and methods in use for many years are well established, and can give radiation doses to s...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Stabin MG

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:In this study, a method to discriminate between natural and other γ-ray sources from environmental γ-ray dose rate monitoring data was developed, and it was successfully applied to actual monitoring data around nuclear facilities. The environmental dose rate is generally monitored by NaI(Tl) detector systems in the lo...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kumagai K,Ookubo H,Kimura H

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current revision of the Swiss Radiological Protection Ordinance aims to bring Swiss legislation in line with new international standards. In future, the control of radon exposure in dwellings will be based on a reference level of 300 Bq m(-3). Since this value is exceeded in >10 % of the buildings so far investiga...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Palacios Gruson M,Barazza F,Murith C,Ryf S

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier measurements have revealed that active electronic dosemeters have deficiencies in pulsed fields of ionising radiation due to the counting technique used. The DIS-1 dosemeter uses a promising technology, which should be basically suitable for measurements in pulsed fields. In this paper, first measurements with...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Zutz H,Hupe O

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current concerns focus on the high doses encountered in computed tomography (CT) examinations as they are extending towards younger and more radiosensitive patients. Previous work produced conversion coefficients for effective dose (E) from dose-length product (DLP) for four anatomical body regions applicable to any p...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Dougeni E,Chapple CL,Willis J,Panayiotakis G

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During atmospheric thermal inversions, dew and hoarfrost concentrate gamma emitting radionuclides of the short-lived (222)Rn progeny ((214)Pb and (214)Bi), causing an increase in the total natural gamma background from the ground. To highlight this phenomenon, a volcanic zone of high (222)Rn flux was studied during th...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Voltaggio M

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current focus on networking and mutual assistance in the management of radiation accidents or incidents has demonstrated the importance of a joined-up approach in physical and biological dosimetry. To this end, the European Radiation Dosimetry Working Group 10 on 'Retrospective Dosimetry' has been set up by indivi...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ainsbury EA,Bakhanova E,Barquinero JF,Brai M,Chumak V,Correcher V,Darroudi F,Fattibene P,Gruel G,Guclu I,Horn S,Jaworska A,Kulka U,Lindholm C,Lloyd D,Longo A,Marrale M,Monteiro Gil O,Oestreicher U,Pajic J,Rakic B

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dosimetric use of the chemical solution chlorobenzene-ethanol-trimethylpentane (CET) is based on the radiolytic formation of hydrochloric acid, which protonates a pH indicator thymolsulphonphthalein. On the basis of the CET solution, an accident and emergency personal dosemeter was designed allowing doses in the r...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Miljanić S,Razem D

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:The occupational exposure incurred by the radiation workers due to the external radiation is estimated using personal dosemeter placed on the human body during the monitoring period. In certain situations, it is required to determine whether the dosemeter alone was exposed accidentally/intentionally in radiation field...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Srivastava K,Soin S,Sapra BK,Ratna P,Datta D

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radium isotopes are dispersed in the environment according to their physicochemical characteristics. Considering their long half-lives and radiological effects, (226)Ra and (228)Ra are very important issues in radiological protection. In Brazil, radium isotopes represent an exposure problem both in nuclear fuel cycle ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Fernandes PC,Sousa WO,Julião LM,Dantas BM

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple hemispherical phantom has been designed and prepared for the EURADOS intercomparison exercise on (241)Am activity determination in the skull (2011-13). The phantom consists of three parts that substitute bone and soft tissues. (241)Am is deposited on the surfaces of the bone-substituting part. The design and ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Vrba T,Malátová I,Fojtík P,Fülöp M,Ragan P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GSI is operating a facility for the production of rare isotopes. Nuclei are produced by fragmentation or fission of the impinging heavy ions with energies of approximately 1 GeV per nucleon. The major part of the primary beam and the produced nuclei is deposited in the components of the Fragment Separator (FRS) and ge...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Fehrenbacher G,Festag JG

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The EC (European Council) Directive on radiation protection of patients requires that criteria for acceptability of equipment in diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine and radiotherapy be established throughout the member states. This study reviews the background to this requirement and to its implementation in practi...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Malone J,Baldelli P,Balter S,Bischof N,Bosmans H,Dowling A,Edyvean S,Gallagher A,Faulkner K,Horner K,Malone L,Mclean ID,O'Connor U,Schreiner A,Vassileva J,Vano E,Zoetelief J

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:223Ra is a radiopharmaceutical used as unsealed source in nuclear medicine. In the case of staff inhalation contamination of 223Ra, methods to estimate the committed effective dose should be chosen with care. Three methods are available: whole-body measurement and gamma spectrometry for urine or faeces samples. Consid...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Saurat D,Aupée O,Gontier E,Métivier D,Cazoulat A,Lecompte Y

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accident dosimetry aims to evaluate the unplanned radiation doses delivered to individuals through one of the objects exist in the area of the accident. The gamma dose response of free radicals generated in irradiated aspartame tablets and its usability for emergency dosimetry was studied. EPR spectra of unirradiated ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Maghraby A,Salama E

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To estimate internal doses due to the inhalation of radionuclides produced by the nuclear spallation of the air nuclei in high-energy proton accelerator facilities, the physicochemical properties of radionuclides are very important. Thus, the ratio of aerosol and gases of 38Cl and 39Cl formed by irradiating argon gas-...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Yokoyama S,Sato K,Manabe K,Noguchi H,Kaneko H,Oki Y,Iida T,Tanaka S

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:During the operation of research facilities at Research Centre Jülich, Germany, nuclear waste is stored in drums and other vessels in an interim storage building on-site, which has a concrete shielding at the side walls. Owing to the lack of a well-defined source, measured gamma spectra were unfolded to determine the ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Heuel-Fabianek B,Hille R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HTR method, developed for determination of absorbed dose and average LET of mixed radiation fields in space, was applied during several space missions on space station MIR, space shuttles and satellites. The method utilises the changes of peak height ratios in the glow curves in dependence on the linear energy tra...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Vana N,Schoner W,Noll M,Fugger M,Akatov Y,Shurshakov V

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to understand the basic mechanism of the action of charged particles in solid radiation dosimeters, we extend our Monte-Carlo code (MC4) to condensed media (liquids/solids) and present new track-structure calculations for electrons and protons. Modeling the energy dissipation process is based on a model d...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Emfietzoglou D,Papamichael G,Karava K,Androulidakis I,Pathak A,Phillips GW,Moscovitch M,Kostarelos K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reconstruction of radiation doses to Mayak Production Association workers in central Russia supports radiation epidemiological studies for the U.S.-Russian Joint Coordinating Committee on Radiation Effects Research. The most recent version of the dosimetry was performed with the Mayak Worker Dosimetry System-2013....

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Napier BA

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a large village, Veprin of the Bryansk region of Russia contaminated with radionuclides as a result of the Chernobyl accident, 137Cs concentration in food products of agricultural produce and natural origin was regularly measured, local inhabitants were polled on the composition of their diet, and the 137Cs content...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Travnikova IG,Bruk GJ,Shutov VN,Bazjukin AB,Balonov MI,Rahola T,Tillander M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question arises as to whether radiation standards and guidelines set for adults are sufficiently protective of children. To answer this question, published literature values have been used to calculate radiation doses to children and adults from external and internal exposure to a suite of 30 radionuclides commonl...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Tracy BL

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Craniospinal irradiation (CSI) is the standard treatment of primary intracranial tumour with risk of leptomeningeal dissemination. However, supine setup field-in-field technique does not need inter-fractional junction shift. Recently, the studies of CSI with tomotherapy showed excellent target coverage and tolerable n...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Hong JY,Kim GW,Kim CU,Cheon GS,Son SH,Lee JY,Lee YH,Lee JH,Choi BO,Kim YS,Lee SN,Jang HS,Kang YN,Yoon SC

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00