Assessment of paediatric CT exposure in a Portuguese hospital.

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：:Results of field tests with explosive dispersal of a radioactive substance (RaS) are presented. The paper deals with tests exploiting artificial obstacles as a continuation and expansion of the tests used in this study performed in free area described previously. The essential goal of the tests was to estimate the dis...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Rulik P,Prouza Z,Hovorka J,Beckova V,Cespirova I,Fronka A,Helebrant J,Hulka J,Kuca P,Skrkal J

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article provides an assessment of the impact of global fallout on (137)Cs contamination in the bottom sediments of Kara Sea. The erosiveness of 10th-level river basins was estimated by landscape-geochemical and geomorphological characteristics. All 10th-level basins (n=154) were separated into three groups: mount...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Miroshnikov A,Semenkov I

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to provide reference fields for the ionising radiation, PTB operates the ion accelerator facility. Referring to high energy photons, reference fields according to International Organization for Standardization 4037 series are produced. The neutron component of the 6-7 MeV photon field (R-F), which is produced...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Röttger S,Heiske A,Nolte R

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical aerosol physics predicts that it is impossible to observe noticeable values of the unattached fraction of decay products of thoron at typical concentrations of aerosol particles. The experimental data have shown that the unattached fraction of the thoron decay products in a monazite storage facility is in th...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Zhukovsky M,Vasyanovich M,Onishchenko A

更新日期：2020-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A multipurpose anthropomorphic neck phantom was designed and fabricated for use in medical applications. The designed neck phantom is composed of seven elliptic cylindrical slices with a semi-major axis of 14 cm and a semi-minor axis of 12.5 cm, each having the thickness of 2 cm. The thyroid gland, bony part of the ne...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Mehdizadeh Naderi S,Sina S,Karimipoorfard M,Lotfalizadeh F,Entezarmahdi M,Moradi H,Faghihi R

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to review the literature on existing diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) in digital mammography and methodologies for establishing them. To this end, a systematic search through Medline, Cinahl, Web of Science, Scopus and Google scholar was conducted using search terms extracted from three terms: DRLs, ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Suleiman ME,Brennan PC,McEntee MF

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sample is provided of the radiological safety issues particular to low energy proton accelerators. 'Low' energy in this context is taken to mean proton energies of less than about 1 GeV. Many of the radiation issues are common to all particle accelerators. Here, those issues are addressed that may require perhaps no...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Moritz LE

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We applied circular dichroism (CD) spectral analysis to obtain the secondary structure of the DNA repair protein XRCC4, with a focus on its C-terminus. Using synchrotron radiation as a light source across a wide range of wavelengths, including vacuum ultraviolet (UV) light from 180 to 200 nm and UV light from 200 to 2...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Nishikubo K,Izumi Y,Matsumoto Y,Fujii K,Matsuo K,Yokoya A

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lost wax casting is an industrial process which permits the transmutation into metal of models made in wax. The wax model is covered with a silicaceous shell of the required thickness and once this shell is built the set is heated and wax melted. Liquid metal is then cast into the shell replacing the wax. When the met...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Alegría N,Legarda F,Herranz M,Idoeta R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A device based on a single silicon detector of special converter/detector design optimised for the determination of the neutron dose equivalent is also used for the determination of the photon dose equivalent. While the neutron dose is determined on the basis of signals corresponding to energy depositions above 1.5 Me...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Luszik-Bhadra M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast and prostatic cancer as well as leukaemia in childhood have remarkably increased over some decades in the Federal Republic of Germany as well as in several other highly developed industrial nations. Such increase was much less or not observable in East Germany between 1960 and 1989 where diagnostic exposures we...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Schmitz-Feuerhake I,Pflugbeil S

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work evaluates the per-procedure, annual collective and per-capita effective doses to the Aosta Valley region population from nuclear medicine (NM) examinations performed from 2005 to 2011 at the regional NM department. Based on its demographical and socioeconomics characteristics, this area can be conside...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Aimonetto S,Arrichiello C,Peruzzo Cornetto A,Catuzzo P,Zeverino M,Poti C,Meloni T,Pasquino M,Tofani S

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Basic Safety Standards demand the prediction of areas where a significant number of households exceed the reference level for the radon activity concentration. Therefore, radon maps are established which are based on indoor and soil gas measurements. In this study results of soil gas measurements are inte...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kabrt F,Baumgartner A,Stietka M,Friedmann H,Gruber V,Ringer W,Maringer FJ

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the radiation environment inside the International Space Station, solid state nuclear track detector stacks were used. Within the BRADOS experiments, Phase 1, seven stacks were exposed at different locations of the Russian segment 'Zvezda' for 248 days in 2001. It was supposed that the radiation field inside ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Pálfalvi JK,Akatov Y,Szabó J,Sajó-Bohus L,Eördögh I

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural radionuclide (226Ra, 232Th and 40K) contents of building materials commonly used in South Korea have been determined by a gamma ray spectroscopy system using a high purity germanium detector. The radon exhalation rates and emanation coefficients of building materials have also been studied. The average con...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Lee SC,Kim CK,Lee DM,Kang HD

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study a set of structures has been simulated to represent a range of clinically relevant breast cancer mammographic lesions including solid tumours and microcalcifications. All structures have been created using simple random-based mathematical functions and have been inserted into a subset of digital mammogra...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ruschin M,Tingberg A,Båth M,Grahn A,Håkansson M,Hemdal B,Andersson I

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring of radon in underground mines is important in order to assess the radiological hazards to occupational workers. Radon concentration levels in three underground lignite mines (Tunçbilek, Omerler and Eynez) of Turkey were obtained in this study. For this reason, atmospheric radon level measurements were carri...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Cile S,Altinsoy N,Celebi N

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bayesian methods provide a unified framework for combining information in the presence of uncertainty. All uncertainties that enter into the description of a measurement are modelled using probability distributions, and these are handled according to the rules of probability theory, ensuring that the approach is free ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Reginatto M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of body elements using the prompt gamma rays neutron activation method is a very useful and highly accurate method Lone, M. A., Mughabghab, S. F. and Paviotti-Corcuera, R. Development of a database for prompt gamma-ray neutron activation analysis. Summary Report of the Second Research Coordination Meeting...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Araghian N,Rafat-Motavalli L,Miri-Hakimabad H

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, microdosimetric energy distributions of secondary charged particles from the (10)B(n,α)(7)Li reaction in boron-neutron capture therapy (BNCT) field were calculated using the Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System (PHITS). The PHITS simulation was performed to reproduce the geometrical set-up of an...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Baba H,Onizuka Y,Nakao M,Fukahori M,Sato T,Sakurai Y,Tanaka H,Endo S

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficiency tracing with unquenched 14C and zero detection threshold with unquenched 3H as tracers are practical and simple techniques which have been implemented to quantify the activity of various beta emitters using liquid scintillation analyser. These techniques are used to study the influence of quench level on ac...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Reddy PJ,Bhade SP,Babu DA,Sharma DN

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In preparation of a large European epidemiological study on the relation between eye lens dose and the occurrence of lens opacities, the European ELDO project focused on the development of practical methods to estimate retrospectively cumulative eye lens dose for interventional medical professionals exposed to radiati...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Farah J,Struelens L,Auvinen A,Jacob S,Koukorava C,Schnelzer M,Vanhavere F,Clairand I

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At a high-energy, high-intensity proton accelerator facility, the accelerator components inside the beam-line tunnel and the concrete wall of the tunnel are activated due to beam loss during operation. During maintenance work inside the tunnel, radiation emitted from these activated materials can cause exposure to rad...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Numajiri M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing public awareness of the risk of accidental radiation exposure due to ageing nuclear power installations, illegal dumping of nuclear waste and terrorist activities, and of the consequential health risks to populations in addition to social and economic disturbance extending beyond national boundaries...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Göksu HY,Bailiff IK

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A follow-up study was taken up in a mineralised zone situated in Hamirpur district, Himachal Pradesh, India, to investigate high values of radon concentrations reported in past studies as well to update the old radon data based on bare SSNTD technique. In the present investigation, the concentrations of indoor radon, ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Bajwa BS,Singh P,Singh P,Saini K,Singh S,Sahoo BK,Sapra BK

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:Regarding in vivo L-band dosimetry with human teeth, a number of preliminary experiments were carried out that were linked to the resonators response and the relative contribution of enamel to the EPR signal intensity of irradiated whole teeth. The sensitivity of the extended loop resonator varies in the antenna plane...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Zdravkova M,Wieser A,El-Faramawy N,Gallez B,Debuyst R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutron therapy beams are obtained by accelerating protons or deuterons on Beryllium. These neutron therapy beams present comparable dosimetric characteristics as those for photon beams obtained with linear accelerators; for instance, the penetration of a p(65)+Be neutron beam is comparable with the penetration of an ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Vynckier S,International Atomic Energy Agency.,International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements.

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dose response effects of diodes due to the high atomic number of silicon relative to water are investigated. While quality chances in the primary component of a megavoltage beam with depth are minimal. Compton scattered photons are shown to have a substantial effect on the quality leading to their enhanced absorption ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Yin Z,Hugtenburg RP,Beddoe AH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00