abstract：:Diamond is a material with extreme physical properties. Its radiation hardness, chemical inertness and tissue equivalence qualify it as an ideal material for radiation dosimetry. In the present work, the optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and thermoluminescence (TL) characteristics of a 10 microm thick CVD diamon...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Preciado-Flores S,Schreck M,Meléndrez R,Chernov V,Bernal R,Cruz-Vázquez C,Cruz-Zaragoza E,Barboza-Flores M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of sample preparation on dentin electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra was investigated. The analysis was performed on dentin samples prepared by pure mechanical treatment or by an alkaline deproteination method. It was observed that (1) mechanical treatment induces both stable and transient signals,...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Fattibene P,Carosi A,De Coste V,Onori S

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：: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：:Calcium fluoride CaF2 is an interesting host lattice for rare earth (RE) activators. CaF2 crystals doped with different concentrations of Dy, Ce, Er and Gd have been grown by the Bridgman technique and their deformation luminescence (DL) induced by room temperature gamma irradiation has been recorded. When a uniaxial ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kher RS,Brahme N,Banerjee M,Dhoble SJ,Khokhar MS

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:A series of magnesium sulphate phosphors MgSO4:RE3+,X ( RE = Dy, Tm, Eu and X = P, Mn) have been prepared and studied. Based on the experimental results of thermoluminescence (TL) emission spectra and dose responses studies, it is proposed that in these phosphors large defect complexes are formed, which include intrin...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Luo DL,Tang Q,Zhang CX

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:The energy responses for the KLT-300(LiF:Mg,Cu,Na,Si, Korea), GR-200(LiF:Mg,Cu,P, China) and MCP-N(LiF:Mg,Cu,P, Poland) thermoluminescence(TL) pellets were studied for a photon radiation with energies from 1.25 MeV(60Co) to 21 MV (Microtron) to verify the usefulness of the calibration for the radiotherapy beams. The I...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kim JL,Lee JI,Ji YH,Kim BH,Kim JS,Chang SY

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermoluminescene (TL) and mechanoluminescence (ML) properties of gamma-irradiated Dy activated potassium and magnesium mixed sulphate have been studied. (K2Mg2:Dy) (SO4)3 samples having different concentrations of Dy were prepared by solid-state diffusion method. Two distinct peaks, the first approximately 130 degree...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Kher RS,Panigrahi AK,Dhoble SJ,Khokhar MS

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of thin LiF:Mg,Cu,P detectors, GR-200F and MCP-Ns, have been characterised for use in the design of an extremity dosemeter for mixed beta-photon radiation fields. Both detectors consist of an extremely thin layer of sensitive material with effective thicknesses of 5 and 8 mg cm(-2), respectively, held in a 5...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ginjaume M,Pérez S,Ortega X,Duch MA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study is aimed at optimising the glow curve structure of CaSO4:Dy phosphor for dosimetric purpose and also to understand the observed changes owing to thermal treatment in the thermoluminescence (TL) sensitivity and glow curve structure. The reversible changes in the intensities of the lower temperature satellite ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Bakshi AK,Pradhan AS,Tyagi AK,Kher RK,Bhatt BC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alanine dosimetry is now well established both as a reference and routine dosemeter for industrial irradiation processing. Accurate dosimetry under the relatively harsh conditions of industrial processing requires a characterisation of the parameters that influence the dosemeter response. The temperature of the doseme...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Desrosiers MF,Lin M,Cooper SL,Cui Y,Chen K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TRADE project (TRiga Accelerator Driven Experiment), to be performed at the existing TRIGA reactor at ENEA Casaccia, has been proposed as a validation of the accelerator-driven system (ADS) concept. TRADE will be the first experiment in which the three main components of an ADS--the accelerator, spallation target ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Burn KW,Carta M,Casalini L,Kadi Y,Monti S,Nava E,Palomba M,Petrovich C,Picardi L,Rubbia C,Troiani F

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high-energy programme of the HINDAS European project has provided a large amount of experimental data and led to a better understanding of the spallation reaction mechanism and the development of more reliable spallation models. These data, or the new models, which have been implemented into high-energy transport ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Leray S,Boudard A,David JC,Donadille L,Villagrasa C,Volant C

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:TRIPOLI-4.3 Monte Carlo transport code has been used to evaluate the QUADOS (Quality Assurance of Computational Tools for Dosimetry) problem P4, neutron and photon response of an albedo-type thermoluminescence personal dosemeter (TLD) located on an ISO slab phantom. Two enriched 6LiF and two 7LiF TLD chips were used a...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Lee YK

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 2001 and 2003 a 3.2 kJ dense plasma focus (DPF) device has been built at the Montecuccolino Laboratory of the Department of Energy, Nuclear and Environmental Control Engineering (DIENCA) of the University of Bologna. A DPF is a pulsed device in which deuterium nuclear fusion reactions can be obtained through t...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Frignani M,Mostacci D,Rocchi F,Sumini M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the operation of research facilities at Research Centre Jülich, Germany, nuclear waste is stored in drums and other vessels in an interim storage building on-site, which has a concrete shielding at the side walls. Owing to the lack of a well-defined source, measured gamma spectra were unfolded to determine the ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Heuel-Fabianek B,Hille R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new French radiation protection legislation requires the definition of the zoning of accelerator facilities with respect to radioactive waste. This activation inside the ESRF 6 GeV storage ring is essentially due to photonuclear reactions. This paper describes the first results of Monte Carlo calculations that wer...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Berkvens P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radon measurements were carried out in Kozlu, Karadon and Uzülmez underground coal mines of Zonguldak bituminous coal basin in Turkey. Passive-time integrating method, which is the most widely used technique for the measurement of radon concentration in air, was applied by using nuclear etched track detectors (CR-39) ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Fisne A,Okten G,Celebi N

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compares the effective doses from a MIRD-type stylised model with those derived from the scaled-down version of the tomographic VIP-Man model for photon, electron, neutron and proton beams. The effective dose results from these two models show that they differ from each other within approximately 10% for co...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Xu XG,Chao TC,Bozkurt A

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Training in radiation protection is widely recognised as one of the basic components of optimisation programmes for medical exposures. Occupational and patient radiation risks in interventional radiology can be quite high and international bodies have shown concern on this item. Following recommendations of the Intern...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Vano E,Gonzalez L

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Image viewing and processing software in computed radiography manipulates image contrast in such a way that all relevant image features are rendered to an appropriate degree of visibility, and improves image quality using enhancement algorithms. The purpose of this study was to investigate procedures for the quality a...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Efstathopoulos EP,Benekos O,Molfetas M,Charou E,Kottou S,Argentos S,Kelekis NL

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The national diagnostic reference levels (NDRLs) form an efficient, concise and powerful standard for optimising radiation protection of a patient. However, in a large hospital, where many radiological departments are present, it is also possible to calculate and define lower dose values as local diagnostic reference ...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Compagnone G,Pagan L,Bergamini C

更新日期：2005-01-01 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 radioisotopic content of 17 samples of natural and manufactured building materials collected in Tunisia have been analysed by using gamma spectrometry. From the measured gamma ray spectra, activity concentrations are determined for (232)Th, (226)Ra, (235)U and (40)K. The total effective dose and the activity conce...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Hizem N,Ben Fredj A,Ghedira L

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary studies have been conducted into the occupational radiation exposure to NORMS from surface and underground mining operations in a gold mine in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. A brief description of the methods and instrumentation is presented. The annual effective dose has been estimated to be 0.26 +/- 0.11 m...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Darko EO,Tetteh GK,Akaho EH

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observer performance studies are time-consuming tasks, both for the participating observers and for the scientists collecting and analysing the data. A possible way to optimise such studies is to perform them in a completely digital environment. A software tool-ViewDEX (Viewer for Digital Evaluation of X-ray images)-h...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Börjesson S,Håkansson M,Båth M,Kheddache S,Svensson S,Tingberg A,Grahn A,Ruschin M,Hemdal B,Mattsson S,Månsson LG

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The image background resulting from imaged anatomy can be divided into those components that are meaningful to the observers, in the sense that they are recognised as separate structures, and those that are not. These latter components (reffered to as anatomical noise) can be removed using a method developed within th...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Båth M,Håkansson M,Börjesson S,Hoeschen C,Tischenko O,Kheddache S,Vikgren J,Månsson LG

更新日期：2005-01-01 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

abstract：:A high-end drum film digitiser (Tango, Germany) and a calibrated linear microdensitometer developed by PTB were used to assess the modulation transfer function (MTF) and the noise power spectra (NPS) of 3 mammographic screen film systems at optical density levels of 0.8, 1.5 and 2.5. The use of a drum scanner to asses...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Verdun FR,Pachoud M,Bergmann D,Buhr E

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A range of techniques has been developed in conventional radiography for the chest, because of technical difficulties in imaging the wide variation of tissue densities. These techniques can differ significantly in tube potential selection, for scatter reduction and in application of manual or automatic exposure contro...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Doyle P,Martin CJ,Gentle D

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In support of the effort to begin high-dose rate 252Cf brachytherapy treatments at Tufts-New England Medical Center, the shielding capabilities of a clinical accelerator vault against the neutron and photon emissions from a 1.124 mg 252Cf source were examined. Outside the clinical accelerator vault, the fast neutron d...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Melhus CS,Rivard MJ,Kurkomelis J,Liddle CB,Massé FX

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of geometrical phantoms for computed tomography (CT) dosimetry can incur errors in the calculation of effective dose due to the anatomically incorrect organ shapes and distributions, and unrepresentative body dimensions. A Monte Carlo program that makes use of an anatomically correct voxel phantom has been dev...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Castellano IA,Dance DR,Evans PM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we analyse the dose to 5034 patients (20 137 images) who underwent mammographic examinations with a full-field digital mammography (FFDM) system over a 2-y period. The information relevant to this study has been extracted from the image Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) headers. Entr...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Morán P,Chevalier M,Ten JI,Fernández Soto JM,Vañó E

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study a set of structures has been simulated to represent a range of clinically relevant breast cancer mammographic lesions including solid tumours and microcalcifications. All structures have been created using simple random-based mathematical functions and have been inserted into a subset of digital mammogra...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Ruschin M,Tingberg A,Båth M,Grahn A,Håkansson M,Hemdal B,Andersson I

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:238U, 234U and 235U were determined in tap water from municipal water pipes that drew their supply from surface water or ground water in various locations in Poland. Average activity concentrations of 238U, 234U and 235U in tap water from surface water were 9.6 +/- 7.1, 12.8 +/- 9.7 and 0.41 +/- 0.31 Bq m(-3), respect...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Pietrzak-Flis Z,Kaminska I,Chrzanowski E

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional Monte Carlo shielding analyses are conducted on the ITER Neutral Beam Injection (NBI) duct for the nuclear and bremsstrahlung radiation. The detailed distribution is evaluated about the nuclear heating rate and surface heat load of the NBI duct wall by the neutron and photon transport calculation. Th...

journal_title：Radiation protection dosimetry

authors： Sato S,Iida H,Yamauchi M,Nishitani T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00