Dosimetric feature of natural biotite mineral.

abstract：:At least 10% of inhabitants in the Czech Republic are supplied with water from private sources (private wells, boreholes). With the increasing cost of water, the number of people using their own sources of drinking water will be likely to increase. According to the Decree of the State Office for Nuclear Safety about t...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Otahal P,Merta J,Burian I

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main objective of WP1 of the ORAMED (Optimization of RAdiation protection for MEDical staff) project is to obtain a set of standardised data on extremity and eye lens doses for staff in interventional radiology (IR) and cardiology (IC) and to optimise staff protection. A coordinated measurement program in differen...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Domienik J,Brodecki M,Carinou E,Donadille L,Jankowski J,Koukorava C,Krim S,Nikodemova D,Ruiz-Lopez N,Sans-Mercé M,Struelens L,Vanhavere F

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:The main dosimetric properties are reported of a new perovskite, LiMgF3, doped with Ce, Er and Dy impurities. An annealing temperature of 400 degrees C for one hour is necessary to erase any previous signal and to stabilise its sensitivity. A readout up to 450 degrees C gives the same result. The glow curve structure ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kitis G,Furetta C,Sanipoli C

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:A Monte Carlo based computational procedure for determining organ doses and effective doses has been described for two procedures used in newly developed image-guided radiation treatment: kilovoltage cone-beam computed tomography (kV CBCT) and mega-voltage computed tomography (MV CBCT). A whole-body patient computatio...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Gu J,Bednarz B,Xu XG,Jiang SB

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Values of the new protection quantity 'Local Skin Dose' LSD, introduced by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) Publication 116, were calculated for 134 β- or β+ emitting radionuclides, using the Monte Carlo code MCNP6. Two types of source geometry are considered: a point source and disc-type...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Bourgois L,Ménard S,Comte N

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：:Thermoluminescence (TL) dose responses to gamma radiation in the dose range from 0.1 Gy to 20 kGy in MgSO4:Dy, MgSO4:Dy,Mn, MgSO4:Dy,P and MgSO4:Dy,P,Cu phosphors were obtained and fitted by the composite action dose response function to obtain non-linear characteristic parameters, one-hit factor R and characteristic ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Zhang CX,Luo DL

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When neutron survey metres are calibrated in neutron fields, the results for room- and air-scattered neutrons vary according to the distance from the source and the size, shape and construction of the neutron calibration room. ISO 8529-2 recommends four approaches for correcting these effects: the shadow-cone method, ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Lee SK,Kim SI,Lee J,Chang I,Kim JL,Kim H,Kim MC,Kim BH

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work aims to assess the effective doses from long-term continual radon monitoring in six European caves (Slovenia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic), including influencing environmental factors. Caves are important radiation protection subjects because of elevated radon activity concentration (~kBq/m3), mos...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ambrosino F,Thinová L,Briestenský M,Sabbarese C

更新日期：2020-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique of alpha spectrometry is used to detect alpha particles and to determine their energy. In this way the technique is able to provide simultaneously quantitative information (i.e. the activity) and qualitative information (the identity) on any radionuclide that emits an alpha particle. The longer-lived nat...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Gingell T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doses received by Cuban population due to exposure to the environmental sources of radiation were studied for their evaluation. Estimations of doses from the different components of the total dose were obtained and published. From the results obtained estimations of total doses to Cuban population from environmental r...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Tomás Zerquera J,Prendes Alonso M,Díaz Rizo O

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper compares several methods for estimation of the effective indoor dose of gamma radiation from building materials. It was found that specific dose ratios proposed for 3 cm thick layers in one recommendation gives 2.8 times lower value of gamma dose than other methods. The most common case is that granite has ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Krmar M,Milić K,Arsenić I,Hansman J

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The reliability of equivalent-dose determinations on quartz made with the single-aliquot regenerative-dose (SAR) protocol is examined using a suite of sedimentary samples for which the equivalent dose is expected to be >200 Gy. Experiments on one sample were used to evaluate the precision obtained using the standard m...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Murray AS,Wintle AG,Wallinga J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of biological dosimetry is to estimate the dose and the associated uncertainty to which an accident victim was exposed. This process requires the use of the maximum-likelihood method for fitting a calibration curve, a procedure that is not implemented in most statistical computer programs. Several laboratories...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Deperas J,Szluinska M,Deperas-Kaminska M,Edwards A,Lloyd D,Lindholm C,Romm H,Roy L,Moss R,Morand J,Wojcik A

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：: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：:This study assesses the outdoor gamma absorbed dose levels in air of the Adana's region. The measurements were taken from 130 different sample points in this area by Eberline Smart Portable (ESP-2) with SPA-6 plastic scintillation detector. The outdoor gamma absorbed dose rates order from 40 to 145 nGy h(-1). Average ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Degerlier M,Ozger G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few years, the Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) has been studying a personal electronic neutron dosemeter and an ambient electronic neutron dosemeter based on experimental microdosimetric principles using low pressure proportional counters. The results obtained in 2000 and in ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ménard S,Chau Q,Lahaye T

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:New paradigms for parallel programming have been devised to simplify software development on multi-core processors and many-core graphical processing units (GPU). Despite their obvious benefits, the parallelisation of existing computer programs is not an easy task. In this work, the use of the Open Multiprocessing (Op...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Örtenberg A,Magnusson M,Sandborg M,Alm Carlsson G,Malusek A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Bayesian unfolding has been applied to ionisation distributions due to 5.4 MeV alpha particles in a 20-nm site obtained using Monte Carlo simulations, taking into account different detection efficiency conditions. The ideal case of a target volume with uniform efficiency has been investigated to study the dependence...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： De Nardo L,Lesimple M,Canella S,Grosswendt B

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionising radiation can induce responses within non-exposed neighbouring (bystander) cells, which potentially have important implications on the estimates of risk at environmentally relevant doses. Using human skin fibroblasts (AG1522), a range of methods were used to investigate the nature of the signal(s) arising fro...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Pyke EL,Stevens DL,Hill MA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An optical fibre radiation dosemeter has been developed that utilises optically stimulated luminescence and scintillation to provide independent, remote, real-time dose measurements. The radiation sensitive element consists of a 1 mm long, 0.4 mm diameter piece of copper-ion-doped fused quartz that is attached to a 1 ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Huston AL,Justus BL,Falkenstein PL,Miller RW,Ning H,Altemus R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has become increasingly evident from reports in the literature that there are many confounding factors capable of modulating radiation-induced non-targeted responses, such as the bystander effect and the adaptive response. In this paper, we examine recent data which suggest that the observation of non-targeted resp...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Sowa MB,Goetz W,Baulch JE,Lewis AJ,Morgan WF

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-energy neutrons (>10 MeV) contribute substantially to the dose fraction but result in only a small or negligible response in most conventional moderated-type neutron detectors. Neutron dosemeters used for radiation protection purpose are commonly calibrated with (252)Cf neutron sources and are used in various wor...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Lee KW,Sheu RJ

更新日期：2015-04-01 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 paper the effect of treatment room and maze layout on the photoneutron and capture gamma dose equivalent in the maze was studied. MCNPX Monte Carlo (MC) code was used to simulate the Varian 2100 C/D Clinac 18 MV and four different room layouts. Two analytical methods, Wu-McGinley and McGinley, were used for do...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Mesbahi A,Ghiasi H,Mahdavi SR

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00