International intercomparison of measuring instruments for radon/thoron gas and radon short-lived daughter products in the NRPI Prague.

abstract：:This study aimed to estimate the radiation organ doses from occupational exposure in 94 396 Korean medical radiation workers. Data on badge doses (i.e. personal dose equivalent at 10 mm) between 1996 and 2011 obtained from a national dosimetry registry, survey data from 2012 to 2013, and organ dose conversion coeffici...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Choi Y,Shil Cha E,Jin Bang Y,Ko S,Ha M,Lee C,Jin Lee W

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The W values of protons in water vapour were measured for energies from 1 keV to 100 keV with uncertainties lower than 1%. To study the energy and phase dependence of W values, the W values of protons in water vapour and liquid water were calculated for energies from 0.1 keV and 10 MeV and then compared to the experim...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Willems G,Back WY,Grosswendt B

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 4.4 MeV photon reference field described in ISO 4037 is produced by the (12)C(p,p')(12)C (E(x) = 4.4389 MeV) reaction using a thick elemental carbon target and a proton beam with an energy of 5.7 MeV. The relative abundance of the isotope (13)C in elemental carbon is 1.10%. Therefore, the 4.4 MeV photon field is c...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Röttger S,Schäler K,Behrens R,Nolte R,Wissmann F

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1952 and 1957, the UK exploded a total of 12 nuclear devices in Australia, and also conducted about 600 'minor trials' that did not involve a nuclear explosion. Over 16 000 Australian servicemen and civilians were involved in the UK tests in Australia. This paper reports the estimation of doses that the Austra...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Crouch P,Robotham FR,Williams G,Wise K

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occupational annual dose levels, encountered at fabrication of emerging nuclear fuels, have been studied. Emerging fuels for the single and multiple recycling of Pu and MA have resulted in considerably higher gamma and neutron doses in comparison with commercial fuels. The occupational dose limit is exceeded at fa...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Nicolaou G

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：: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：:Protons are the dominant particles both in galactic cosmic rays and in solar particle events and, furthermore, proton irradiation becomes increasingly used in tumour treatment. It is believed that complex DNA damage is the determining factor for the consequent cellular response to radiation. DNA plasmid pBR322 was irr...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Pachnerová Brabcová K,Štěpán V,Karamitros M,Karabín M,Dostálek P,Incerti S,Davídková M,Sihver L

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the framework of a joint research project on natural radiation exposure and its health effects in Cameroon from 2014 to 2017, the Institute of Geological and Mining Research and the Hirosaki University worked together to carry out natural radiation survey in mining and ore bearing regions of Cameroon. Air kerma...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Tokonami S,Hosoda M,Joseph Emmanuel NNI,Akata N,Flore TSY,Modibo OB,Samuel BG,Didier TSS

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three general principles of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) are: justification, optimisation (ALARA) and dose limitation. The principle application of optimisation (ALARA) for occupational exposures of workers or the public to external radiation is reliant on low doses being assessed...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Voisin P,Roy L,Benderitter M

更新日期：2004-01-01 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 hybrid cell line CGL1 is the only cell line which allows quantitation of neoplastic transformation in human cells. Hybrid cells were exposed to 3.4 MeV alpha particles or to mammography X rays (29 kV(p)) and both survival and neoplastic cell transformation were assayed. For comparison, previously published data ob...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Frankenberg-Schwager M,Spieren S,Pralle E,Frankenberg D

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this discussion is to explore how theories from other disciplines can contribute to the debate on organisation and delivery of diagnostic and therapeutic exposures. The first part explores how theories of justice suggest that health services should be provided; the second part explores how stakeholder...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Durand-Zaleski I

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of non-targeted effects (NTEs) of radiation (genomic instability and bystander effects) has been generally accepted for >20 y; however, there is research, which was largely ignored going back to 1915 reporting these effects. Despite today's general acceptance of the phenomenon of NTE, there is little agr...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Mothersill C,Seymour C

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We proposed and evaluated a water-equivalent diameter calculation without using a region of interest (ROI), (Dw,t) and compared it with the results of using a ROI fitted to the patient border (Dw,f). Evaluations were carried out on thoracic and head CT images. We found that the difference between Dw,t and Dw,f was wit...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Anam C,Arif I,Haryanto F,Widita R,Lestari FP,Adi K,Dougherty G

更新日期：2019-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:An automatic measuring apparatus called exhalometer for measurement of the radon exhalation rate from soil is introduced. It consists of a pneumatic driven accumulation chamber with an open bottom, a PC-based control system, six Lucas cells for radon measurement and sensors for environmental parameters. It allows movi...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Yang J,Buchsteiner M,Salvamoser J,Irlinger J,Guo Q,Tschiersch J

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human behaviour is primarily driven by perceptions and this is particularly important in the aftermath of a nuclear accident. One of the main lessons we can draw from the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents is that once the acute phase of the accident is over, it is important to engage in dialogue with the affected popu...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Vanmarcke H

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radioactive liquid wastes of low-medium activity level are generated in radio immune assay (RIA) laboratories, which are also potentially infectious because of the pathogens from patient blood. The most common way of managing these wastes consists of a temporal storage, for partial radioactivity decay, followed by man...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Sancho M,Arnal JM,Villaescusa JI,Campayo JM,Verdú G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:South coast of India is known as the high-level background radiation area (HBRA) mainly due to beach sands that contain natural radionuclides as components of the mineral monazite. The rich deposit of monazite is unevenly distributed along the coastal belt of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. An HBRA site that laid in 2×7 m alon...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Matsuda N,Brahmanandhan GM,Yoshida M,Takamura N,Suyama A,Koguchi Y,Juto N,Raj YL,Winsley G,Selvasekarapandian S

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The material for this study comprised control protocols from 248 mammography screening facilities, prepared by physicists employed at 16 Regional Coordinating Centres and the results from the clinical evaluation of mammographic images in 248 facilities in Poland. All mammograms were evaluated independently by three ex...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Fabiszewska E,Grabska I,Jankowska K,Wesolowska E,Bulski W

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the introduction of continuous-energy heavy charged particle transport in MCNP5, the need for tracking charged particles in a magnetic field becomes increasingly important. Two methods for including magnetic field effects on charged particles are included in the proton transport version of the code. The first tec...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Bul JS,Hughes HG,Walstrom PL,Zumbro JD,Mokhov NV

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of geometrical phantoms for computed tomography (CT) dosimetry can incur errors in the calculation of effective dose due to the anatomically incorrect organ shapes and distributions, and unrepresentative body dimensions. A Monte Carlo program that makes use of an anatomically correct voxel phantom has been dev...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Castellano IA,Dance DR,Evans PM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dosimetric monitoring and protection of the personnel involved into interventional procedures is one of the key issues nowadays, yet doses received by their brains were left without rigorous consideration so far. The paper is the fast track of the results of the pilot study of possible magnitude of operator's doses wi...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Chumak V,Morgun A,Bakhanova E,Voloskyi V

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:For the calibration of personal dosemeters in terms of H(p)(10), the ISO water slab phantom shall be used. The irradiation geometry must be chosen such that the field diameter at the phantom front surface is large enough to irradiate the phantom completely and, in addition, homogeneously. However, in practice it is no...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ankerhold U,Ambrosi P

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the total exposure due to signals within GSM 900, GSM 1800, CDMA-1900 and 3G-2100 frequency bands at 200 m from the foot of 120, 100 and 80 base station masts in the Nigerian cities of Lagos, Ibadan and Abuja, respectively, was assessed. A calibrated hand-held spectrum analyser was used to measure the l...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ayinmode BO,Farai IP

更新日期：2020-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Composite neutron scintillators consisting of neutron-insensitive fluorescent dopant particles (e.g. ZnS:Ag) embedded in a matrix material containing isotopes with high neutron cross sections that emit energetic charged particles (e.g. 6Li) are a popular method for neutron detection in a variety of applications. The s...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Stephan AC,Dai S,Wallace SA,Miller LF

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation protection (RP) in the use of medical cyclotrons involves many aspects both in the routine use and for the decommissioning of a site. Guidelines for site planning and installation, as well as for RP assessment, are given in international documents; however, the latter typically offer analytic methods of calc...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Infantino A,Cicoria G,Lucconi G,Pancaldi D,Vichi S,Zagni F,Mostacci D,Marengo M

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：: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