IMPROVEMENT OF GAMMA-RAY SUBTRACTION PROCEDURE FOR A CURRENT-MODE NEUTRON DETECTOR WITH A PAIR OF 6Li- AND 7Li-GLASS SCINTILLATORS.

abstract：:Dose estimation in interventional neuroradiology can be useful to limit skin radiation injuries. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of entrance skin dose (ESD) maps in planning exposure condition optimisation. Thirteen cerebral angiography and five embolisation procedures were monitored, measuring ESD,...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Rampado O,Ropolo R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Monte Carlo-based stand-alone program, IDACstar (Internal Dose Assessment by Computer), was developed, dedicated to perform radiation dose calculations using complex voxel simulations. To test the program, two irradiation situations were simulated, one hypothetical contamination case with 600 MBq of 99mTc and one ex...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ören Ü,Hiller M,Andersson M

更新日期：2017-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examines the energy-loss mechanism of charged particles in organic solids as determined by the inelastic interactions with the electronic sub-system of the target. The dielectric approach was applied to non-conducting valence electrons while an appropriate binary collision theory was used for core-el...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Emfietzoglou D

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Boron neutron capture therapy is known to be an effective radiation cancer therapy that requires neutron irradiation. A neutron field generated by an accelerator-based neutron source has various energy spectra, and it is necessary to evaluate the neutron spectrum in the treatment field. However, the method used to mea...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Tamaki S,Kusaka S,Sato F,Murata I

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to establish a dose estimation tool with Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. A 5-y-old paediatric anthropomorphic phantom was computed tomography (CT) scanned to create a voxelised phantom and used as an input for the abdominal cone-beam CT in a BEAMnrc/EGSnrc MC system. An X-ray tube model of ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kim S,Yoshizumi TT,Toncheva G,Frush DP,Yin FF

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetics of dissolution of (238)U, (234)U and (230)Th dust deposited on filters from personal alpha dosemeters was studied by means of a 26-d in vitro dissolution test with a serum ultrafiltrate simulant. Dosemeters had been used by miners at the uranium mine 'Dolní Rozínka' at Rozná, Czech Republic. The sampling flow...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Becková V,Malátová I

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological dosimetry relies on the assessment of dose in peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) of a victim. Variability in the individual radiosensitivity of PBL has an impact on the precision of dose estimate and radiation-induced micronuclei show a strong individual variability. A factor which can influence the radiose...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Krol M,Lankoff A,Buraczewska I,Derezinska E,Wojcik A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity concentrations of dissolved (222)Rn and (226)Ra were measured in several underground aquifers, which are candidates for repositories or for the study of analogue natural escapes of CO2. The concentration of both radionuclides in water was determined using liquid scintillation counting. The values obtained for...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Martín Sánchez A,Ruano Sánchez AB,de la Torre Pérez J,Jurado Vargas M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the radiation environment inside the International Space Station, solid state nuclear track detector stacks were used. Within the BRADOS experiments, Phase 1, seven stacks were exposed at different locations of the Russian segment 'Zvezda' for 248 days in 2001. It was supposed that the radiation field inside ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Pálfalvi JK,Akatov Y,Szabó J,Sajó-Bohus L,Eördögh I

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The entrance surface dose (ESD) (skin dose) and its variation due to overlapping radiation fields at mammography have been experimentally investigated on patients during two-view mammography screening examinations of both breasts and on phantoms of silicon gel. Measurements were done using multiple thermoluminescence ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Adliene D,Cibulskaite I,Laurikaitiene J,Adlys G

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of experimental studies performed in a radiotherapy (12)C ion beam with a nominal energy of 500 MeV/amu and in (16)O and (56)Fe ion beams with a nominal energy of 1 GeV/amu have been described. Linear energy transfer (LET) spectra have been established by means of an LET spectrometer based on a chemically ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Jadrnícková I,Spurny F,Molokanov AG

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prudence is a cornerstone of radiation protection philosophy. However, whilst the concept is clearly valid at the level of principle, it is nonetheless necessary to ask 'How should prudence be applied in the context of various practical situations.' This is perhaps particularly important where exposures are low-within...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Coates R

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：: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：:Lung disease represents one of the most life-threatening conditions in prematurely born children. In the evaluation of the neonatal chest, the primary and most important diagnostic study is therefore the chest radiograph. Since prematurely born children are very sensitive to radiation, those radiographs may lead to a ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Smans K,Struelens L,Smet M,Bosmans H,Vanhavere F

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper shows methods to suppress radon emanation from artificial porous materials such as phosphorous fertiliser or diatomaceous earth with a small amount of radium. The basic concept of suppression is making the radon emanation mechanism 'null', which comes from the fact that recoil is the main mechanism o...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Sasaki T,Gunji Y,Okuda T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An oil and gas production facility in the western desert of Egypt was investigated for possible radiation risks due to the routine operation. Radium-226, Radium-228 and Potassium-40 were assessed in the soil samples collected from the adjacent soakaway pond. The average 226Ra, 228Ra and 40K activity concentrations wer...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ebaid YY,Hassan Y,Elshemey WM

更新日期：2020-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Virtual models of real phantoms used with Monte Carlo methods facilitate the calibration and other studies associated with whole-body and partial-body counting systems. In this investigation, a voxel model of an LLNL torso phantom, available physically in the in vivo laboratory at KIT, was created from computed tomogr...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Hegenbart L,Marzocchi O,Breustedt B,Urban M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study has been performed on the effects of high-dose-rate (DR) X-ray beams produced by a plasma focus device (PFMA-3), to exploit its potential medical applications (e.g. radiotherapy), and low-DR X-ray beams produced by a conventional source (XRT). Experiments have been performed at 0.5 and 2 Gy doses o...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Virelli A,Zironi I,Pasi F,Ceccolini E,Nano R,Facoetti A,Gavoçi E,Fiore MR,Rocchi F,Mostacci D,Cucchi G,Castellani G,Sumini M,Orecchia R

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to questions raised after the Gulf War about the health significance of exposure to depleted uranium (DU), the US Department of Defense initiated a study designed to provide an improved scientific basis for assessment of possible health effects on soldiers in vehicles struck by these munitions. As part of ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Parkhurst MA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystalline rocks can produce dangerous radiation levels on the basis of their content in radioisotopes. Here, we report radiological data from 10 metamorphic and igneous rock samples collected from the crystalline basement of the Peloritani Mountains (southern Italy). In order to evaluate the radiological properties ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Romano D,Caridi F,Di Bella M,Italiano F,Magazù S,Caccamo MT,Tripodo A,Faggio G,Grillo R,Triolo C,Messina G,Gattuso A,Sabatino G

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity concentration of natural and anthropogenic radionuclides was determined in different vegetable samples, and foods derived from animal origin, from different locations in the four cities of Southern Tunisia, where large-scale phosphate industries are operating. The aim of the studies was to establish a bas...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Machraoui S,Mohan MP,Naregundi K,Labidi S

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the topics which forms part of CONRAD project addresses the problems related to the dosimetry of complex-mixed radiation fields at workplaces. This topic was included in work package (WP) 6. WP 6 was established to co-ordinate research activities in two areas:the development of new techniques and the improvemen...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Spurny F,Silari M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In diagnostic nuclear medicine, the biokinetics of the radiopharmaceutical (actually of the radionuclide) is determined for a number of representative patients. At therapy, it is essential to determine the patient's individual biokinetics of the radiopharmaceutical in order to calculate the absorbed doses to critical ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Mattsson S

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iodine thyroid blocking (ITB) suppresses the uptake of iodine to the thyroid and reduces internal doses after radioiodine intake; however, its disturbance of thyroid biokinetics causes considerable uncertainty in the use of dosimetric data intended for assessment of unblocked normal thyroid. To more accurately assess ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kwon TE,Park M,Jung GH,Chung Y,Ha WH,Jin YW

更新日期：2019-12-31 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

abstract：:The prevalent algorithm for the estimation of beta dose, which in turn is used for estimation of skin dose for exposures involving beta radiations was observed to significantly overestimate the dose in individual monitoring based on CaSO4:Dy TLD badge in India. A new algorithm has been developed by estimating the corr...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Rakesh RB,Kumar M,Sneha C,Ratna P,Datta D

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In France, natural sources account for most of the population exposure to ionising radiation. This exposure varies widely with area. Radon and gamma-ray exposure data come from national measurement campaigns; cosmic doses were calculated from city altitude. These data were corrected for season of measurement, housing ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Billon S,Morin A,Caër S,Baysson H,Gambard JP,Backe JC,Rannou A,Tirmarche M,Laurier D

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physics foundations of hadronic interactions as implemented in most Monte Carlo codes are presented together with a few practical examples. The description of the relevant physics is presented schematically split into the major steps in order to stress the different approaches required for the full understanding o...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ferrari A,Sala PR

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In May 2000, the chairman of the European Radiation Dosimetry Group (EURADOS) invited a number of experts with experience of cosmic radiation dosimetry to form a working group (WG 5) on aircraft crew dosimetry. Three observers from the Article 31 Group of Experts as well as one observer from the Joint Aviation Authori...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Beck P,Bartlett D,Lindborg L,McAulay I,Schnuer K,Schraube H,Spurny F

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00