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Rühm, W. ; Wallner, A.* ; Cullings, H.* ; Egbert, S.D.* ; El-Faramawy, N. ; Faestermann, T.* ; Kaul, D.* ; Knie, K.* ; Korschinek, G.* ; Nakamura, N.* ; Roberts, J.* ; Rugel, G.*

⁴¹Ca in tooth enamel. Part II: A means for retrospective biological neutron dosimetry in atomic bomb survivors.

Radiat. Res. 174, 146-154 (2010)
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(41)Ca is produced mainly by absorption of low-energy neutrons on stable (40)Ca. We used accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) to measure (41)Ca in enamel of 16 teeth from 13 atomic bomb survivors who were exposed to the bomb within 1.2 km from the hypocenter in Hiroshima. In our accompanying paper (Wallner et al., Radiat. Res. 174, 000-000, 2010), we reported that the background-corrected (41)Ca/Ca ratio decreased from 19.5 x 10(-15) to 2.8 x 10(-15) with increasing distance from the hypocenter. Here we show that the measured ratios are in good correlation with gamma-ray doses assessed by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) in the same enamel samples, and agree well with calculated ratios based on either the current Dosimetry System 2002 (DS02) or more customized dose estimates where the regression slope as obtained from an errors-in-variables linear model was about 0.85. The calculated DS02 neutron dose to the survivors was about 10 to 80 mGy. The low-energy neutrons responsible for (41)Ca activation contributed variably to the total neutron dose depending on the shielding conditions. Namely, the contribution was smaller (10%) when shielding conditions were lighter (e.g., outside far away from a single house) and was larger (26%) when they were heavier (e.g., in or close to several houses) because of local moderation of neutrons by shielding materials. We conclude that AMS is useful for verifying calculated neutron doses under mixed exposure conditions with gamma rays.
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Publikationstyp Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Schlagwörter Accelerator mass-spectrometry; Hiroshima; Nagasaki; Spectra; Samples; Copper; CL-36; Ions
Sprache englisch
Veröffentlichungsjahr 2010
HGF-Berichtsjahr 2010
ISSN (print) / ISBN 0033-7587
e-ISSN 1938-5404
Zeitschrift Radiation Research
Quellenangaben Band: 174, Heft: 2, Seiten: 146-154 Artikelnummer: , Supplement: ,
Verlag Radiation Research Society
Begutachtungsstatus Peer reviewed
Institut(e) Institute of Radiation Protection (ISS)
POF Topic(s) 30504 - Mechanisms of Genetic and Environmental Influences on Health and Disease
Forschungsfeld(er) Radiation Sciences
PSP-Element(e) G-501100-001
PubMed ID 20681781
DOI 10.1667/RR2044.1
Scopus ID 77955124214
Erfassungsdatum 2010-12-08
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