EURADOS coordinated action on research, quality assurance and training of internal dose assessments.

abstract：:Activities were introduced in Kashiwa city in the Tokyo metropolitan area to correspond to the elevated environmental radiation level after the disaster of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. These were based on a strong cooperation between local governments and experts. Ambient dose rate and radioactivity of f...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Iimoto T,Nunokawa J,Fujii H,Takashima R,Hashimoto M,Fukuhara T,Yajima T,Matsuzawa H,Kurosawa K,Yanagawa Y,Someya S

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A project to construct the Korea Multi-purpose Accelerator Complex (KOMAC) is currently underway targeting a high-intensity proton beam with an average current of 4.8 mA. As for the first stage of construction, a 20 MeV linac is planned to be built by 2007 and additional DTL sections will be added to increase the prot...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Cho YS,Lee YO,Chang J

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:The use of solid tissue substitutes is a well-accepted and common practice in dosimetric studies and in the production of counting standards for radiological protection. However, only a few solid tissue substitutes simulating a particular body tissue with respect to a set of physical characteristics are commercially a...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kinase S,Kimura M,Noguchi H,Yokoyama S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimation of the surface dose is very important for patients undergoing radiation therapy. The purpose of this study is to investigate the dose at the surface of a water phantom at a depth of 0.007 cm as recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection and International Commission on Radiation U...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Alashrah S,Kandaiya S,Maalej N,El-Taher A

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is popularly known that people who entered into the ground-zero area shortly after the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki suffered from various syndromes similar to acute radiation effects. External exposures from neutron-induced radionuclides in soil have recently been reassessed based on DS02 calculations ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Imanaka T,Endo S,Kawano N,Tanaka K

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the framework of the ORAMED project (Optimization of RAdiation protection for MEDical staff), funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme, different studies were aimed at improving the quality of radiation protection in interventional radiology and nuclear medicine. The main results of the project were...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Gualdrini G,Bordy JM,Daures J,Fantuzzi E,Ferrari P,Mariotti F,Vanhavere F

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The national diagnostic reference levels (NDRLs) form an efficient, concise and powerful standard for optimising radiation protection of a patient. However, in a large hospital, where many radiological departments are present, it is also possible to calculate and define lower dose values as local diagnostic reference ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Compagnone G,Pagan L,Bergamini C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium fluoride CaF2 is an interesting host lattice for rare earth (RE) activators. CaF2 crystals doped with different concentrations of Dy, Ce, Er and Gd have been grown by the Bridgman technique and their deformation luminescence (DL) induced by room temperature gamma irradiation has been recorded. When a uniaxial ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kher RS,Brahme N,Banerjee M,Dhoble SJ,Khokhar MS

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effective dose E is an efficient and powerful parameter to study the radioprotection of the patient. In our hospital, eight radiological departments and more than 100 radiological X-ray tubes are present. The effective doses were calculated for adults and paediatric patients in 10 standard projections. To calculat...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Compagnone G,Pagan L,Bergamini C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lignite burning is one of the sources of technologically enhanced exposure to humans from natural radionuclides. In the preliminary study, part of the survey, the activity concentrations of (226)Ra, (232)Th and (40)K in 112 samples of feed lignites from seven lignite-fired power plants in Western Anatolia (Seyitömer, ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Cam NF,Yaprak G,Eren E

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual neutron dosimetry represents one of the current difficulties in the field of radiological protection of workers. Since March 1999, the regulatory requirements in France for active (i.e. operational) dosimetry have been those of ICRP Publication 60, applicable from May 2000, necessitating the introduction of...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Lahaye T,Cutarella D,Ménard S,Bolognese-Milsztajn T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The safe use of ionising radiation for applications in medicine, electric power production and industrial processes requires accurate measurements that are traceable to national standards. Radiological calibration laboratories provide measurements that may be used to determine the calibration coefficients for personal...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： McDonald JC

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of (220)Rn (thoron) progeny for human exposure has been widely recognised in the past decades. Since no stable equilibrium factor was found between indoor thoron and its progeny, and the concentration of thoron progeny varies with time, it is necessary to develop detectors for long-term measurement that...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Bi L,Tschiersch J,Meisenberg O,Wielunski M,Li JL,Shang B

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:In this study, the thermoluminescence properties of natural calcite samples were examined in detail. The glow curve of the sample irradiated with beta radiation shows two main peaks, P1 (at 115 °C) and P4 (at 254 °C). The additive dose, variable heating rate, computer glow curve deconvolution, peak shape and three poi...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Yildirim RG,Kafadar VE,Yazici AN,Gün E

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new proposed design of neutron shielding material-based on the commercial material Borotron UH050 with an addition of Al(OH)3-is evaluated in order to determine if its neutron and gamma shielding properties match those of a reference material, NS4FR. Neutron and gamma dosimetry measurements are performed, as well as...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Campo X,Méndez R,Lacerda MAS,Garrido D,Embid M,Sanz J

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In radiotherapy involving thermal and epithermal neutrons, the knowledge of dose distributions, with separation of the contribution of each secondary radiation component, is of utmost importance. Layers of Fricke-Xylenol-Orange-infused gel dosemeters give the possibility of achieving such requirements because, owing t...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Gambarini G,Carrara M,Gay S,Tomatis S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major contaminants from venting and hydrogen explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors between 12 and 15 March 2011 were transported northwestward and deposited on soil and plants via precipitation. Surface soils and plant leaves were sampled at 64 sites in the Fukushima Prefecture. The highest concentratio...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Tazoe H,Hosoda M,Sorimachi A,Nakata A,Yoshida MA,Tokonami S,Yamada M

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radon is one of the noble gases, which are chemically inert and do not make any reactants under normal conditions. In this experiment we demonstrated an enigmatic reaction between radon and fluorine when a corona discharge is used as a promoter. Distinctive changes in radon concentrations were caused by the discharge ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Yamada Y,Koizumi A,Ishikawa K,Hishinuma Y,Tatenuma K

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lead has recently been recognised as a source of environmental pollution, including the lead used for radiation shielding in radiotherapy. The bremsstrahlung radiation caused by the interaction between the electron beam and lead may reduce the accuracy of radiotherapy. To avoid the use of lead, a new material composed...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Yue K,Luo W,Dong X,Wang C,Wu G,Jiang M,Zha Y

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2008, the German Childhood Cancer Registry published the results of the Kinderkrebs in der Umgebung von Kernkraftwerken (KiKK) study of childhood cancer and leukaemia around German nuclear power stations. The positive findings appeared to conflict with the results of a recent British analysis carried out by the Com...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Bithell JF,Keegan TJ,Kroll ME,Murphy MF,Vincent TJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 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 manipulation of a wide variety of unsealed sources in Nuclear Medicine results in a significant risk of internal exposure of the workers. 131I should be highlighted among the most frequently used radionuclides because of its large application for diagnosis and therapy of thyroid diseases. The increasing use of rad...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Lucena EA,Rebelo AM,Araújo F,Sousa WO,Dantas AL,Dantas BM,Corbo R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Institute of Standards and Technology developed a new set of test sources for testing of portal monitors against the ANSI standard N42.35-2004. The design and source specifications are provided in this work. ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Lucas L,Pibida L,Unterweger M,Karam L

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Special individual monitoring has been performed for suspected cases of inhalation of plutonium at the Tokai Works of the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC). Some experimental data obtained from this special individual monitoring during the past 20 years are presented and discussed in this paper. Our expe...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kurihara O,Momose T,Tasaki T,Hayashi N,Shinohara K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro dose-response calibration curves for (60)Co gamma rays have been established for unstable chromosome aberrations in human peripheral blood lymphocytes. The observed dose-response data were fitted to a linear quadratic model. The calibration curve parameters were used to estimate the equivalent whole-body dose...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Senthamizhchelvan S,Pant GS,Rath GK,Julka PK,Nair O,Joshi RC,Malhotra A,Pandey RM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An attempt towards an experimental set up which could provide the experimental data on correlation processes occurred simultaneously in two distanced DNA targets within a charged particle track is presented. A modified Jet Counter nanodosemeter was used in two experiments with carbon ions with mean energies of 52 and ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Pietrzak M,Pszona S,Bantsar A

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From August 2016 to June 2017, the Public Health England-Centre for Radiation Chemical and Environmental Hazards (PHE-CRCE), collaborating centre of the WHO, through its Radiation Hazards and Emergencies Department Emergency Response Group has successfully supported five WHO Joint External Evaluation (JEE) missions in...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： de Ruvo A,Cox D

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Full field digital mammography (FFDM) has advantages over screen-film mammography (SFM), but some important challenges remain. The first challenge is related to the specific characteristics of FFDM. It remains unclear, which shape and limiting values of the modulation transfer function have the most influence on the p...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Van Ongeval C,Bosmans H,Van Steen A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00