COMPARISON OF MONOENERGETIC PHOTON ORGAN DOSE RATE COEFFICIENTS FOR STYLIZED AND VOXEL PHANTOMS SUBMERGED IN AIR

Radiation Protection Dosimetry
Michael BellamyN E Hertel

Abstract

As part of a broader effort to calculate effective dose rate coefficients for external exposure to photons and electrons emitted by radionuclides distributed in air, soil or water, age-specific stylized phantoms have been employed to determine dose coefficients relating dose rate to organs and tissues in the body. In this article, dose rate coefficients computed using the International Commission on Radiological Protection reference adult male voxel phantom are compared with values computed using the Oak Ridge National Laboratory adult male stylized phantom in an air submersion exposure geometry. Monte Carlo calculations for both phantoms were performed for monoenergetic source photons in the range of 30 keV to 5 MeV. These calculations largely result in differences under 10 % for photon energies above 50 keV, and it can be expected that both models show comparable results for the environmental sources of radionuclides.

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Apr 1, 2010·Annals of the ICRP·N Petoussi-HenssUNKNOWN International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements

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May 7, 2016·Radiation Protection Dosimetry·M B BellamyR W Leggett
Aug 16, 2016·Radiation Protection Dosimetry·M M HillerM B Bellamy
Feb 17, 2017·Radiation Protection Dosimetry·Mauritius Hiller, Shaheen Azim Dewji
Feb 15, 2020·Physics in Medicine and Biology·Keith T GriffinChoonsik Lee
May 12, 2017·Radiation and Environmental Biophysics·K G VeinotR Manger
Jul 9, 2021·Radiation Research·Andrew RosenstromShaheen Dewji

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