QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE STUDY OF RADON CONTENT IN BULGARIAN MINERAL WATERS.

abstract：:A monolithic silicon telescope, consisting of a DeltaE and an E stage-detector ( approximately 1.9 microm and 500 microm thick, respectively), was coupled to a polyethylene converter in order to investigate the feasibility of a solid state microdosimeter with respect to the field-funnelling effect. This work discusses...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Agosteo S,Colautti P,Fazzi A,Moro D,Pola A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thorium is used in many different industrial technologies and is widely found in nature. Internal contamination with thorium is considered as highly hazardous because of its radiological and chemical toxicities, which depend on the chemical form in which thorium appears. The assessment of the thorium body burden is th...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Genicot JL,Bruggeman M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Absorbed dose and average linear energy transfer (LET) were assessed by means of (7)LiF:Mg,Ti (TLD-700) thermoluminescent (TL) detectors for different panels on-board the Russian Segment of the International Space Station in the timeframe between March and November 2002 (233 d). A technique is presented to correct the...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Hajek M,Berger T,Fugger M,Fürstner M,Vana N,Akatov Y,Shurshakov V,Arkhangelsky V

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, the MCNP4B code has been employed to calculate conversion coefficients from air kerma to the ambient dose equivalent, H*(10)/Ka, for monoenergetic photon energies from 10 keV to 50 MeV, assuming the kerma approximation. Also estimated are the H*(10)/Ka for photon beams produced by linear accelerators, su...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Lima MA,Silva AX,Crispim VR

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In paediatrics, the risks associated with ionising radiation should be a major concern, due to children's higher susceptibility to radiation effects. Measure entrance skin dose (ESD) in chest and pelvis X-ray projections and compare the results with the 'European guidelines on quality criteria for diagnostic radiograp...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Paulo G,Santos J,Moreira A,Figueiredo F

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swedish hemangioma patients were treated in infancy mainly by external application of radium-226 starting from 1920. This work analysed the radiation risk among 17,158 women with a total of 678 breast cancer incidence cases with models of carcinogenesis and empirical excess relative risk models. Models incorporating e...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Eidemüller M,Holmberg E,Jacob P,Lundell M,Karlsson P

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the worldwide reports, industrial radiography is one of the highest risk radiation practices due to handling high activity sources. Therefore, an optimization of protection along with appropriate investigation level and/or dose constraint is required to achieve appropriate radiological safety. This resear...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Hosseini Pooya SM,Dashtipour MR

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:Scarce published data on the long-term excretion of tritiated water from the human body have been re-evaluated in order to develop a biokinetic model describing the retention in the human body of 3H from tritiated water (HTO) that could be used for both prospective and retrospective radiation protection. A three-compo...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Taylor DM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relatively high organ doses absorbed by patients in interventional cardiology suggest the opportunity to define these patients as a cohort to be followed forward in time in an epidemiological study of the cancer risks associated with exposure to low-dose ionising radiation. In this paper, the UNSCEAR 2000 Report risk ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Malisan MR,Padovani R,Faulkner K,Malone JF,Vaño E,Jankowski J,Kosunen A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1995, requirements on energy-efficient building construction were established in Russian Building Codes. In the course of time, utilisation of such technologies became prevailing, especially in multi-storey building construction. According to the results of radon survey in buildings constructed meeting new requi...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Vasilyev AV,Yarmoshenko IV,Zhukovsky MV

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this work was to review the reasonable measures that should be implemented as part of a routine practice in the process of managing CT radiation risks in a typical average radiology department. Based on 6 y of experience in the management of a general radiology department and the newly implemented suppo...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kirova G,Georgiev E,Zasheva C,St Georges A

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:During the course of an intercomparison exercise it was possible to compare two JAERI phantoms with each other by using a multi-energy photon emitting lung set (241Am/152Eu). One belonged to the IAEA (Vienna), the other belonged to the Human Monitoring Laboratory (Ottawa). The intercomparison of the phantoms showed th...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kramer GH,Hauck BM

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：:Current concerns focus on the high doses encountered in computed tomography (CT) examinations as they are extending towards younger and more radiosensitive patients. Previous work produced conversion coefficients for effective dose (E) from dose-length product (DLP) for four anatomical body regions applicable to any p...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Dougeni E,Chapple CL,Willis J,Panayiotakis G

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:An invited panel discussed with the participants of the Symposium their views on the impact of non-targeted effects on the relationship between microdosimetry and risk. The discussion was wide ranging and lively, with divergences of opinion. At one end was the view that understanding microscopic features and distribut...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Goodhead DT

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the operation of high-energy accelerators, the interaction of radiation with matter can lead to the activation of the machine components and of the surrounding infrastructures. As a result of maintenance operation and during decommissioning of the installation, considerable amounts of radioactive waste are evac...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ulrici L,Magistris M

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：:A programme of harmonization of individual dosimetry quality control organized in the framework of a distributed metrology system is presented as seen from the experiences gained in Slovenia. As a part of the programme intercomparison of dosimetry services was organized and basic characteristics of dosimetry systems c...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Stuhec M,Zorko B,Vekić B,Miljanić S,Ban R,Basić B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the frame of the EU Coordination Action CONRAD (coordinated network for radiation dosimetry), WP4 was dedicated to work on computational dosimetry with an action entitled 'Uncertainty assessment in computational dosimetry: an intercomparison of approaches'. Participants attempted one or more of eight problems. This...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： de Carlan L,Price R,Chartier JL,Kodeli I,Siebert B,Henninger J,Posselt J,Gualdrini G,Agosteo S,Bedogni R,Bordy JM,Cassette P,Ferrari P,Gomez Ros JM,Grosswendt B,Lacoste V,Pola A,Rollet S,Schultz F,Simakov SP,Tanne

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peak skin doses to patients undergoing interventional radiological procedures in a 3-year period were assessed to identify the most critical procedures and evaluate probability for occurrence of radiation-induced tissue injuries. Data of 7607 patients were reviewed, identifying those with cumulative air kerma at a ref...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kuhelj D,Kovačič M,Zdešar U,Pekarovič D,Žontar D

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：:New radiophotoluminescence (RPL) phosphate glass containing (6)Li was successfully made from the powder of NaPO(3), Al(PO(3))(3), LiOH, HPO(3) and AgCl. The ternary diagram of NaPO(3)-Al(PO(3))(3)-LiPO(3) has clarified the region where satisfactory RPL characteristics of the glass are kept up. The synthesised phosphat...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Maki D,Kobayashi H,Sato F,Murata I,Kato Y,Tanaka T,Yamamoto T,Iida T

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eyeglass lenses are commonly composed of allyl-diglycol carbonate (CR-39), an alpha-particle detecting plastic, thus making such lenses personal radon dosemeters. Samples of such lenses have been obtained, etched to reveal that radon and radon progeny alpha tracks can be seen in abundance, and sensitivities have been ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Fleischer RL,Meyer NR,Hadley SA,MacDonald J,Cavallo A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The personnel dosimetry department of the Greek Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) assures the individual monitoring of almost 8000 occupationally exposed workers. Thermoluminescence dosimetry systems will replace the existing photographic dosimetry system for the individual monitoring with the joint support of IAEA and ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Carinou E,Drikos G,Hourdakis C,Hyvönen H,Kamenopoulou V

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In reviewing the tissue effects of low-dose radiation (1) absorbed dose to tissue is replaced by the sum of energy deposited with track events in cell-equivalent tissue micromasses, i.e. with microdose hits, in the number of exposed micromasses and (2) induced cell damage and adaptive protection are related to microdo...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Feinendegen LE

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper presents the first results of an investigation on optical absorption (OA), thermally and infrared stimulated luminescence (TL and IRSL) of the Pinacate plagioclase (labradorite). The OA spectra reveal two bands with maxima at 1.0 and 3.2 eV connected with absorption of the Fe3+ and Fe2+ and IR absorption at ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Chernov V,Paz-Moreno F,Piters TM,Barboza-Flores M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, radioactivity levels of 35 different samples of 11 commonly used building materials in Samsun were measured by using a gamma spectrometry system. The analysis carried out with the high purity Germanium gamma spectrometry system. Radioactivity concentrations of (226)Ra, (232)Th and (40)K range from 6 to ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Tufan MÇ,Disci T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00