NATURAL RADIATION EXPOSURE TO THE PUBLIC IN MINING AND ORE BEARING REGIONS OF CAMEROON.

abstract：:This study assesses the level of natural radioactivity due to radionuclides, ²³⁸U, ²³²Th and ⁴⁰K, in 50 soil samples collected from South Konkan, Maharashtra, India. The mean activity concentrations of ²³⁸U, ²³²Th and ⁴⁰K are 44.97 ± 1.22 Bq kg⁻¹, 59.70 ± 2.17 Bq kg⁻¹ and 217.51 ± 8.75 Bq kg⁻¹, respectively, measured ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Dhawal SJ,Phadatare MR,Thorat ND,Kulkarni GS,Pawar SH

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multi-colour fluorescence in situ hybridisation (MFISH) assay has been developed, for simultaneous visualisation of all human chromosomes in 24 different colours. This assay is based on the simultaneous use of combinatorial labelling and ratio labelling, the so called combined binary ratio labelling (COBRA). This te...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Darroudi F,Bezrookove V,Fomina J,Mesker WE,Wiegant JC,Raap AK,Tanke HJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An improvement in the clinical results obtained using total body irradiation (TBI) with photon beams requires precise TBI treatment planning, reproducible irradiation, precise in vivo dosimetry, accurate documentation and careful evaluation. In vivo dosimetry using LiF Harshaw TLD-100 chips was used during the TBI tre...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Palkosková P,Hlavata H,Dvorák P,Novotný J,Novotný J Jr

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AVIDOS is a computer code used for the dose assessment of aircraft crew exposed to cosmic radiation. The code employs a multiparameter model built upon simulations of cosmic radiation exposure done using the FLUKA Monte Carlo code. AVIDOS calculates both ambient dose equivalent H*(10) and effective dose E for flight r...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Latocha M,Beck P,Rollet S

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:In the early phase of a nuclear reactor accident, in-vivo monitoring of impacted population would be highly useful to detect potential contamination during the passage of the cloud and to estimate the dose from inhalation of measured radionuclides. However, it would be important to take into account other exposure com...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Challeton-de Vathaire C,Quentric E,Didier D,Blanchardon E,Davesne E,Rannou A,Agarande M,Renaud-Salis V,Franck D

更新日期：2019-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the framework of the EURADOS Working Group 11, a comparison of passive neutron dosemeters in high-energy neutron fields was organised in 2011. The aim of the exercise was to evaluate the response of poly-allyl-glycol-carbonate neutron dosemeters from various European dosimetry laboratories to high-energy neutro...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Trompier F,Boschung M,Buffler A,Domingo C,Cale E,Chevallier MA,Esposito A,Ferrarini M,Geduld DR,Hager L,Hohmann E,Mayer S,Musso A,Romero-Esposito M,Röttger S,Smit FD,Sashala Naik A,Tanner R,Wissmann F,Caresana M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risks of childhood leukaemia and lymphoma were investigated for specific work-related exposures of mothers in the UK Childhood Cancer Study. Interviews with parents of 1881 leukaemia and lymphoma cases (0-14 years) and 3742 controls collected job histories recording exposure to eight specific agents. Exposure was (1) ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： McKinney PA,Raji OY,van Tongeren M,Feltbower RG

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The project 'Radiological Analysis of Environmental Samples in the Gulf of Mexico and the coast of Quintana Roo', had the aim of identifying and quantifying anthropogenic radionuclides in environmental samples consisting of silt, sand and sea water. This paper presents the results of the radiological analysis of these...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Salas Mar B

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This trial was undertaken to assess extremity dosemeters, which were made available to Devonport Royal Dockyard and determine the most suitable to the site. The trial included operational and laboratory-based exposures. Operational exposures were within a submarine reactor compartment and a waste storage area. Laborat...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kenyon R,Collison R

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the primary factor contributing to the internal effective dose in the human organism is contaminated food, the control of radionuclides in food represents the most important means of protection. This study was conducted to determine the levels of the dietary exposure of the Lebanese population to gamma-emitting ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Nasreddine L,El Samad O,Hwalla N,Baydoun R,Hamzé M,Parent-Massin D

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fast assessment of the dose received by exposed persons is crucial in radiological accidents, so the 48 h of cell culture in conventional cytogenetic dosimetry in addition to some limitations after high doses becomes a disadvantage. The premature chromosome condensation (PCC) assay permits to analyse enough cells ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Romero I,Lamadrid AI,González JE,García O,Voisin P,Roy L

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequencies and effective doses for the most common X-ray diagnostic examinations in Ukraine were assessed in the frame of the European Commission (EC) Study on European Population Doses from Medical Exposure (Dose Datamed 2). The average effective doses for all radiographic procedures were estimated using the ODS...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Stadnyk L,Shalopa O,Nosyk O

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents the results of 222Rn in 24 sources of mineral water, 54 samples from different captured natural springs and drillings. 222Rn determination was performed by direct measurement using Alpha Guard with Aqua Kit. The results for the TDS, anions (F-, Cl-, SO42-), cations (Na+, Ca2+, Mg2+), pH and tempera...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kamenova-Totzeva RM,Totzev AV,Kotova RM,Ivanova-Teneva GR

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental data on DNA double strand break (DSB) induction in human fibroblasts (AG1522), following irradiation with several radiation qualities, namely gamma rays, 0.84 MeV protons, 58.9 MeV u(-1) carbon ions, iron ions of 115 MeV u(-1), 414 MeV u(-1), 1 GeV u(-1), and 5 GeV u(-1), are presented. DSB yields were me...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Esposito G,Belli M,Campa A,Cherubini R,Cuttone G,Dini V,Furusawa Y,Gerardi S,Simone G,Sorrentino E,Tabocchini MA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experimental energy dependence of the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) radiation-induced signal at irradiation by photons in the energy range of 13 keV-1.25 MeV was analysed in terms of the absorbed dose in human tooth enamel. The latter was calculated using a Monte Carlo simulation of the photon and electron...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ivannikov AI,Tikunov DD,Borysheva NB,Trompier F,Skvortsov VG,Stepanenko VF,Hoshi M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Namie Town in Fukushima Prefecture, the majority of which was an evacuation area as a result of the effects of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, carried out a 'temporal stay' in September 2016 so that residents could check their houses. Therefore, in cooperation with the town authorities, the authors...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Tsujiguchi T,Shiroma Y,Suzuki T,Tamakuma Y,Yamaguchi M,Iwaoka K,Hosoda M,Tokonami S,Kashiwakura I

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate of a possible correlation between indoor radon and indoor gamma dose rates deduced by in situ gamma spectrometry measurements by using a portable HPGe detector. Indoor radon and high resolution in situ gamma spectrometry measurements were performed in 60 apartments in Th...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Clouvas A,Xanthos S,Antonopoulos-Domis M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The standard paradigm for radiation effects in cellular systems has involved direct damage to DNA and in particular, DNA double strand breaks as the triggering lesions leading to mutation, cell death and transformation. Recently, however, a growing body of evidence has reported non-targeted effects, which are not a di...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Prise KM,Belyakov OV,Newman HC,Patel S,Schettino G,Folkard M,Michael BD

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:To investigate the repair process of DNA damage induced by ionizing radiation in isolation from various types of cytoplasmic damage, we transfected X-irradiated enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP)-expressing plasmid DNA into non-irradiated mammalian cells using lipofectamine. The repair kinetics of the irradiate...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Nakaue H,Obata Y,Kaminaga K,Akimitsu N,Yokoya A

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：:To aid in protecting patients from unnecessary exposures and to reduce radiation burdens to the public, a system for tracking a patient's medical exposure history and related radiation doses would be a useful tool. A patient-centred exposure registry, the Patient Exposure Registry (PER), is a mechanism that provides t...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Chen J,Moir D,Cornett J

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On leaving the irradiated fuel bay at Pickering A nuclear power station, a worker triggered a whole body monitor alarm with activity in or on his head, and despite careful decontamination techniques he subsequently swallowed a hot particle. Over the next 3 d, the radioactivity was tracked through the body. It was then...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Whillans DW,Chase WJ,Wolodarsky WH

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation shielding assessments may underestimate the expected dose if some isotopes at trace level are not considered in the isotopes inventory of the shielded radioactive materials. Indeed, information about traces is not often available. Nevertheless, the activation of some minor isotopic traces may significantly c...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Bonin A,Tsilanizara A

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The counting efficiency and detection limit of an in vivo thyroid 131I monitoring system using an imaging plate (IP) were estimated using an anthropomorphic thyroid neck phantom. The counting efficiency of the IP system was approximately constant for thyroid volumes between 11.7 and 20 ml and neck diameters between 10...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Hirota M,Saze T,Nishizawa K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New statistical distributions have been defined to describe occupational exposures to ionising radiation. These distributions are particularly useful in modelling occupations where most doses are low. The maximum likelihood method was used for parameter estimation and has been adapted to allow doses that are recorded ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Sont WN

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dose and dose rate effectiveness factors (DDREF), in conjunction with other weighting factors, are commonly used to scale atomic bomb survivor data in order to establish limits for occupational radiation exposure, including radiation exposure in space. We use some well-known facts about the microscopic pattern of ener...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Schimmerling W,Cucinotta FA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For more accurate measurement of the potential alpha energy concentration (PAEC) of radon progeny by the liquid scintillation counting (LSC) method, its counting efficiency was studied in this work. A radon progeny standard source was used to provide different concentrations of radon progeny, and the progeny collected...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Feng B,Tang Q,Zhang H,Chen B,Qiu S,Zhuo W

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effective dose E is an efficient and powerful parameter to study the radioprotection of the patient. In our hospital, eight radiological departments and more than 100 radiological X-ray tubes are present. The effective doses were calculated for adults and paediatric patients in 10 standard projections. To calculat...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Compagnone G,Pagan L,Bergamini C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00