Measurement of the magnetic fields of high-voltage substations (230 kV) in Tehran (Iran) and comparison with the ACGIH threshold limit values.

abstract：:In a previous paper, conversion coefficients for the personal dose equivalent, H(p)(d), for photons were reported. This note reports values for electrons calculated using similar techniques. The personal dose equivalent is the quantity used to approximate the protection quantity effective dose when performing personal...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Veinot KG,Hertel NE

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physical data regarding bremsstrahlung and neutrons produced in a steel shield by high-energy electron beams from a medical linear accelerator were investigated. These data are required to allow the accurate prediction of shielding performance for high-energy electron beams and in the design of radiotherapy facili...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Fujita Y,Myojoyama A,Saitoh H

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the topics which forms part of CONRAD project addresses the problems related to the dosimetry of complex-mixed radiation fields at workplaces. This topic was included in work package (WP) 6. WP 6 was established to co-ordinate research activities in two areas:the development of new techniques and the improvemen...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Spurny F,Silari M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the framework of the European Metrological Research Program (EMRP) IND04 MetroMetal 'Ionizing radiation metrology for the metallurgical industry', joint research carried out by 14 metrological institutions from countries within the European Union and the company ENVINET, questions concerning the determination o...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Tecl J,Solc J,Kovar P,Bunata M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue-equivalent proportional counters (TEPCs) are widely used in experimental microdosimetry for characterising the radiation quality in radiation protection and radiation therapy environments. Generally, TEPCs are filled with tissue-equivalent gas mixtures, at low gas pressure, to simulate tissue site sizes similar...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Chiriotti S,Moro D,Conte V,Colautti P,D'Agostino E,Sterpin E,Vynckier S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Image viewing and processing software in computed radiography manipulates image contrast in such a way that all relevant image features are rendered to an appropriate degree of visibility, and improves image quality using enhancement algorithms. The purpose of this study was to investigate procedures for the quality a...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Efstathopoulos EP,Benekos O,Molfetas M,Charou E,Kottou S,Argentos S,Kelekis NL

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the image quality and dose to patients in the radiography of sacroiliac joints and to perform a clinical comparative study of digital and conventional screen-film radiography. Routine radiography of sacroiliac joint was performed in 60 patients using digital and screen-film rad...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Jablanovic D,Ciraj-Bjelac O,Damjanov N,Seric S,Radak-Perovic M,Arandjic D,Maksimovic R

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequencies and effective doses for the most common X-ray diagnostic examinations in Ukraine were assessed in the frame of the European Commission (EC) Study on European Population Doses from Medical Exposure (Dose Datamed 2). The average effective doses for all radiographic procedures were estimated using the ODS...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Stadnyk L,Shalopa O,Nosyk O

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of double strand breaks (DSBs) and double-stranded DNA fragments after irradiation with high energy nitrogen ions was simulated with stochastic track generation and a high-order chromatin structure (HOCS) model representing a segment of interphase chromosome. The non-random distribution of DNA fragments is ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Khvostunov IK,Andreev SG,Eidelman Y

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compares the effective doses from a MIRD-type stylised model with those derived from the scaled-down version of the tomographic VIP-Man model for photon, electron, neutron and proton beams. The effective dose results from these two models show that they differ from each other within approximately 10% for co...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Xu XG,Chao TC,Bozkurt A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study has been performed on the effects of high-dose-rate (DR) X-ray beams produced by a plasma focus device (PFMA-3), to exploit its potential medical applications (e.g. radiotherapy), and low-DR X-ray beams produced by a conventional source (XRT). Experiments have been performed at 0.5 and 2 Gy doses o...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Virelli A,Zironi I,Pasi F,Ceccolini E,Nano R,Facoetti A,Gavoçi E,Fiore MR,Rocchi F,Mostacci D,Cucchi G,Castellani G,Sumini M,Orecchia R

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermoluminescene (TL) and mechanoluminescence (ML) properties of gamma-irradiated Dy activated potassium and magnesium mixed sulphate have been studied. (K2Mg2:Dy) (SO4)3 samples having different concentrations of Dy were prepared by solid-state diffusion method. Two distinct peaks, the first approximately 130 degree...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kher RS,Panigrahi AK,Dhoble SJ,Khokhar MS

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outdoor gamma background of the historic center of Rome was studied by in situ measurements and average values of the outcropping geological formations. The survey resulted in two maps of dose equivalent rate, related to pre-anthropic and present conditions. Presently, the average of the dose equivalent rate from ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Daniela G,Carloni S,Voltaggio M,Di Lisa GA

更新日期：2019-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A multi-colour fluorescence in situ hybridisation (MFISH) assay has been developed, for simultaneous visualisation of all human chromosomes in 24 different colours. This assay is based on the simultaneous use of combinatorial labelling and ratio labelling, the so called combined binary ratio labelling (COBRA). This te...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Darroudi F,Bezrookove V,Fomina J,Mesker WE,Wiegant JC,Raap AK,Tanke HJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the number and complexity of fluoroscopically guided interventions increase, a serious effort has to be put on the optimisation of the X-ray dose delivered to the patient. In order to set up this optimisation process, the clinical practice for a given cardiology centre has to be analysed with relevant statistical p...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ryckx N,Goy JJ,Stauffer JC,Verdun FR

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a preoccupation with linearity and absorbed dose as the basic quantifiers of radiation hazard. An alternative is the fluence approach, whereby radiation hazard may be evaluated, at least in principle, via an appropriate action cross section. In order to compare these approaches, it may be useful to discuss th...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Waligórski MP

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the objectives and reviews the progress of EULEP Working Party 5, convened under the auspices of the European Union's Fifth Framework Programme, to 'cluster' two EU-supported contracts, Biokinetics and Dosimetry of Internal Contamination (BIODOS (EU Contract FIS5-1999-00214)) and Radionuclide Biok...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Taylor DM,Stradling GN,Ménétrier F

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper summarises the results of radon diffusion coefficient measurements in 360 common waterproof materials available throughout Europe. The materials were grouped into 26 categories according to their chemical composition. It was found that the diffusion coefficients of materials used for protecting houses again...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Jiránek M,Kotrbatá M

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation dose was measured with set of TL dosimeters during checkout of neutron radiation hardness of the ORTEC preamplifier type 142A in the experiment at the MARIA nuclear reactor at the National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Otwock-Świerk, Poland. Different types of LiF-based TL detectors have been used for ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Obryk B,Malik K,Bilski P,Igielski A,Dankowski J,Kurowski A,Prokopowicz R,Pytel K

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical X-ray films are continued to be the major image receptors in diagnostic radiology in India. About 9×10⁶ m² of medical X-ray films are used per annum for diagnostic imaging in India, and its magnitude may further increase as the number of diagnostic X-ray units is increasing rapidly. A national quality control ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Sharma R,Sharma SD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyzes the exposure of the human torso to electromagnetic fields caused by wireless body-mounted or handheld devices. Because of the frequency and distance ranges from 30-5800 MHz and 10 to 200 mm, respectively, both near-field and far-field effects are considered. A generic body model and simulations of ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Christ A,Samaras T,Neufeld E,Klingenböck A,Kuster N

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Described are functions, models and approaches of software tool Emergency Source Term code (ESTE), which is decision support system for crisis staff in case of nuclear or radiological accidents. The first task of ESTE in emergency situation at nuclear facility is to evaluate state of reactor core or state of fuel in s...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Fojcíková E,Lipták Ľ,Krpelanová M,Chylý M,Čarný P

更新日期：2019-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-end drum film digitiser (Tango, Germany) and a calibrated linear microdensitometer developed by PTB were used to assess the modulation transfer function (MTF) and the noise power spectra (NPS) of 3 mammographic screen film systems at optical density levels of 0.8, 1.5 and 2.5. The use of a drum scanner to asses...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Verdun FR,Pachoud M,Bergmann D,Buhr E

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to develop an Automatic Brain Dose Estimation (ABDE) methodology for head computed tomography examinations. The ABDE is to be applied first to an anthropomorphic Alderson phantom to obtain a Correction factor (Cf) between the ABDE and the direct absorbed brain dose using dosemeters positioned within th...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Gharbi S,Labidi S,Mars M

更新日期：2020-07-02 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：:A single-parameter geometry to describe soil is achieved for Monte Carlo calculation of absorbed dose rate in air for photon emitters from natural radionuclides. This optimised geometry based on physical assumptions consists of the soil part whose emitted radiation has a given minimum probability to reach the detector...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Askri B,Manai K,Trabelsi A,Baccari B

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The project 'Radiological Analysis of Environmental Samples in the Gulf of Mexico and the coast of Quintana Roo', had the aim of identifying and quantifying anthropogenic radionuclides in environmental samples consisting of silt, sand and sea water. This paper presents the results of the radiological analysis of these...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Salas Mar B

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of the parallel-plate avalanche counter for slow-neutron counting is described. The choice of a suitable neutron converter is discussed on the basis of Monte Carlo simulation, and some experimental results are shown. Excellent gamma-insensitivity, high rate capability, possibility of construction in large sens...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Nakhostin M,Baba M,Itoga T,Oishi T,Unno Y,Kamada S,Okuji T

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：: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