Dose tracking and radiology department management.

abstract：:The aim of this work was to experimentally compare the contrast improvement factors (CIFs) of a newly developed software-based scatter correction to the CIFs achieved by an antiscatter grid. To this end, three aluminium discs were placed in the lung, the retrocardial and the abdominal areas of a thorax phantom, and di...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Mentrup D,Jockel S,Menser B,Neitzel U

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the low doses (and low dose rates) relevant to environmental and occupational radiation exposure (0-50 mSv), which are of practical concern for radiation protection, very few cells in the human organism experience more than one traversal by densely ionising particles in their lifetime, the intervals between the tra...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Gerardi S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to obtain a deeper insight into the molecular mechanism controlling the cellular response to high-linear energy transfer (LET) radiation, the number and size of pATM (S1981) and gamma-H2AX foci were compared in cultures of diploid human fibroblasts after exposure to charged particles of varying species, energ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Fürweger C,Hajek M,Vana N,Kodym R,Okayasu R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated levels of natural background radiation due to scattered patches of monazite sand around the beaches of Mangalore, India, have been reported earlier. A comparative study of gamma dose rates was performed in both normal background and high natural background radiation areas around Mangalore using different type...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Al-Azmi D,Kumara S,Mohan MP,Karunakara N

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：:Thailand is predominantly an agricultural country. The Northern Region occupies the second largest cultivated land area in the country. To establish baseline data for future environmental monitoring, seventy-nine plant samples including vegetables, fruits and tobaccos and their relevant soils were collected from the m...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kritsananuwat R,Kranrod C,Chanyotha S,Ploykrathok T,Sriploy P

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radiation doses to patient in computed tomography (CT) in Syria have been investigated and compared with similar studies in different countries. This work surveyed 30 CT scanners from six different manufacturers distributed all over Syria. Some of the results in this paper were part of a project launched by the In...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kharita MH,Khazzam S

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The variation of the response of the instruments with the neutron energy has to be determined in well-characterized monoenergetic neutron fields. The AMANDE facility will deliver such neutron fields between 2 keV and 20 MeV in an experimental hall designed with metallic walls for neutron scattering minimisation. The n...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Gressier V,Guerre-Chaley JF,Lacoste V,Lebreton L,Pelcot G,Pochat JL,Bolognese-Milstajn T,Champion D

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a radiation detector based on an organic scintillator for spectrometry and dosimetry of out-of-field secondary neutrons from clinical proton beams. The detector consists of an EJ-299-34 crystalline organic scintillator, coupled by fiber optic cable to a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM). Proof of concept mea...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Beyer KA,Di Fulvio A,Stolarczyk L,Parol W,Mojzeszek N,Kopéc R,Clarke SD,Pozzi SA

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the widespread introduction of extra high voltage power transmission lines in the 1960s, and subsequent to early reports from Soviet Union scientists about health risks for transformer station personnel, public concern regarding the effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) on biological function has given rise to...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Cooper PJ,Garny A,Kohl P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of the newly discovered behaviour of LiF:Mg,Cu,P detectors at high and ultra-high doses, a new method of thermoluminescence (TL) measurement of radiation doses ranging from micrograys up to a megagray, has been recently developed at the Institute of Nuclear Physics (IFJ). The method is based on the relati...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Obryk B,Bilski P,Olko P

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:Material activation assessment of a proposed accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy facility was performed using the FLUKA Monte Carlo code to quantify the magnitude of the problem in terms of the isotope inventories, induced activities, and residual dose rates. Two simplified operation scenarios were conside...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Lai BL,Sheu RJ

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first proton linear accelerator for tumor therapy based on an actively scanned beam up to the energy of 150 MeV, is under development and construction by ENEA-Frascati, ISS and IFO, under the Italian TOP-IMPLART project. Protons up to the energy of 7 MeV are generated by a customized commercial injector operating ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： De Angelis C,Ampollini A,Basile E,Cisbani E,Della Monaca S,Ghio F,Montereali RM,Picardi L,Piccinini M,Placido C,Ronsivalle C,Soriani A,Strigari L,Trinca E,Vadrucci M

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton beams (62 Mev) are used by the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud of the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics to treat eye melanoma tumours at the therapeutic facility called CATANA. A cylindrical slim tissue-equivalent proportional counter (TEPC) of 2.7 mm external diameter has been used to compare the radiation qua...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： De Nardo L,Moro D,Colautti P,Conte V,Tornielli G,Cuttone G

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various methodologies that aim at an analytic representation of the dielectric response function (DRF) of liquid water with emphasis on the Bethe ridge region are compared. The use of optical data is a common feature to all models presented providing an empirical ground for modelling the valence energy losses where ma...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Emfietzoglou D,Nikjoo H,Pathak A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(238)U, (232)Th, (222)Rn and (220)Rn concentrations were measured inside various Moroccan black soap samples widely used by the Moroccan population in traditional baths (Hammans) by using both CR-39 and LR-115 type II solid state nuclear track detectors. The measured (238)U, (232)Th, (222)Rn and (220)Rn concentrations...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Misdaq MA,Outeqablit K

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual genetic variation can influence susceptibility to the carcinogenic effects of many environmental carcinogens. In radiation-exposed populations those individuals with a greater genetically determined susceptibility would be at greater risk of developing cancer. To include this modification of risk into radia...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Rosemann M,Kuosaite V,Nathrath M,Atkinson MJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occupational radiological protection (RP) is still a challenge in several clinical practices. ICRP has included specific recommendations and advice for occupational protection in most of the documents published in recent years and its current programme of work includes the preparation of documents with specific conten...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Vano E

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In actual conditions of use, the power radiated from cellular phones changes during conversation depending on several factors. Upon request from the radio base station (RBS), the phone in fact, reduces, its power to a level that is deemed optimum for the quality of conversation. In this study, special phones, which ha...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ardoino L,Barbieri E,Vecchia P

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the most common sources of electromagnetic (EM) fields as a diagnostic technique widely used in medicine. MRI staff during the working day is constantly exposed to static and spatially heterogeneous magnetic field. Also, moving around the MRI room to perform their functions, ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Hartwig V,Virgili G,Ferrante Vero LF,De Marchi D,Landini L,Giovannetti G

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On 27 occasions, radiation doses were measured for a family member designated as the 'caregiver' for a patient receiving high-dose radioiodine outpatient therapy for differentiated thyroid carcinoma. For 25 of the administrations, patients received 3.7 GBq of (131)I. Radiation doses for the designated caregivers were ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Marriott CJ,Webber CE,Gulenchyn KY

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Three widely used anthropomorphic phantoms are analysed with regard to their suitability for the efficiency calibration of whole-body counters (WBCs): a Bottle Manikin Absorber (BOMAB) phantom consisting of water-filled plastic containers, a St Petersburg block phantom (Research Institute of Sea Transport Hygiene, St ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Schläger M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radon ((222)Rn) measurements were undertaken in 16 samples of well water representing different depths and different types of aquifers found at the city centre of Konya, Central Turkey. The radon activity concentrations of the well water samples collected in the spring and summer seasons of 2012 were measured by using...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Erdogan M,Eren N,Demirel S,Zedef V

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:QUADOS, a Concerted Action of the European Commission, has promoted an intercomparison aimed at evaluating the use of computational codes for dosimetry in radiation protection and medical physics. This intercomparison was open to all users of radiation transport codes. Eight problems were selected for their relevance ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Gualdrini G,Agosteo S,Ménard S,Price RA,Chartier JL,Grosswendt B,Kodeli I,Leuthold GP,Siebert BR,Tagziria H,Tanner RJ,Terrissol M,Zankl M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental validation of a low-cost method for extrapolation and estimation of the maximal electromagnetic-field exposure from long-term evolution (LTE) radio base station installations are presented. No knowledge on downlink band occupation or service characteristics is required for the low-cost method. The meth...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Verloock L,Joseph W,Gati A,Varsier N,Flach B,Wiart J,Martens L

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement of indoor radon concentrations were performed in the dwellings of the Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, India by using LR-115 type II Solid-State Nuclear Track Detectors in the bare mode. The annual average indoor radon concentrations in the dwellings are found to vary from 114 to 400 Bq m(-3) with an avera...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Rani A,Singh S,Duggal V

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Techa river region was highly contaminated due to radioactive releases from a nuclear production facility in the period from 1949 to 1956. The inhabitants of the upper Techa river settlements received significant doses of external radiation. The majority of the houses in the upper Techa river villages were demolis...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Bougrov NG,Baturin VA,Goeksu HY,Degteva MO,Jacob P

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00