Personal dose equivalent for photons and its variation with dosimeter position

M Zankl - Health physics, 1999 - journals.lww.com
This work presents conversion coefficients per air kerma free-in-air for the personal dose
equivalent, H p (10), calculated according to its definition by the International Commission …

Calculation of effective doses for broad parallel photon beams

CH Kim, WD Reece, JW Poston Sr - Health physics, 1999 - journals.lww.com
Values of effective dose (E) were calculated for the entire range of incident directions of
broad parallel photon beams for selected photon energies using the Monte Carlo N-Particle …

Determining the effective dose equivalent for external photon radiation: calculational results for beam and point source geometries

WD Reece, JW Poston Sr, XG Xu - Radiation protection …, 1994 - academic.oup.com
In 1994, US nuclear plants must implement a new Code of Federal Regulations which
adopts the methodology of ICRP 26 for effective dose equivalent (HE) from internally …

Effective dose equivalent and effective dose for photon exposures from point and disk sources on the floor

CH Kim, WD Reece, JW Poston Sr - Health physics, 1998 - journals.lww.com
A complete set of HE and E values were calculated for photon exposures from point and disk
sources on the floor using the MCNP code and a “hermaphroditic” phantom. It was found …

Personal dose equivalent conversion coefficients for photons to 1 GeV

KG Veinot, NE Hertel - Radiation protection dosimetry, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The personal dose equivalent, H p (d), is the quantity recommended by the International
Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU) to be used as an approximation …

INTERCOMPARISON ON THE MEASUREMENT OF THE QUANTITY PERSONAL DOSE EQUIVALENT HP(10) IN PHOTON FIELDS. LINEARITY DEPENDENCE …

P Ondo Meye, C Schandorf, JK Amoako… - Radiation Protection …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
An inter-comparison study was conducted to assess the capability of dosimetry systems of
individual monitoring services (IMSs) in Gabon and Ghana to measure personal dose …

Angular dependence factors and air kerma to dose equivalent conversion coefficients for cylindrical phantoms irradiated by plane-parallel extended monoenergetic …

B Grosswendt - Radiation protection dosimetry, 1995 - academic.oup.com
With the aid of the Monte Carlo method, conversion coefficients between the receptor-free
air collision kerma and the collision kerma for 4-element ICRU tissue have been calculated …

Age-dependent effective doses for external photons

Y Yamaguchi - Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 1994 - academic.oup.com
Monte Carlo calculations of the effective dose, E, for external photons have been performed
using anthropomorphic phantoms of six age groups: 0, 1, 5, 10 and 15 years, and adult …

Response of current photon personal dosemeters to new operational quantities

D Ekendahl, Z Čemusová, D Kurková… - Radiation Protection …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The ICRU proposed new operational quantities, which are defined in close relation to
effective dose and absorbed dose. Most of the current personal dosemeters were designed …

Intercomparison on measurements of the quantity personal dose equivalent, Hp (0.07), by extremity ring dosimeters in medical fields

E Carinou, L Donadille, M Ginjaume, J Jankowski… - Radiation …, 2008 - Elsevier
In the framework of the CONRAD project, the EURADOS WG9 organized an
intercomparison of extremity dosimeters that are used in a variety of medical fields. The …