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Organ doses for foetuses, babies, children and adults from environmental gamma rays.
Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 37, 31-41 (1991)
Organ doses for babies, children and adults and doses to foetuses from environmental gamma rays were calculated using Monte Carlo codes. Firstly, gamma ray fields in the air-over-ground geometry were simulated, neglecting the disturbance of the radiation field by the human body. The exposure modes considered were semi-infinite homogeneous volume sources in the air, infinite plane sources at a depth of 0.5 g.cm-2 in the ground and homogeneous volume sources of natural radionuclides in the ground. The results of the simulation of the gamma ray transport in the air-over-ground geometry were used as sources irradiating the anthropomorphic phantoms: an 8 week old baby, a seven year old child and two 'reference' adult phantoms of a male and a female. The doses to foetuses were estimated from the dose to the uterus of the adult female. Dose conversion factors normalised to source intensity and air kerma were calculated for monoenergetic sources (15 keV to 10 MeV) and natural and artificial radionuclides.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
ISSN (print) / ISBN
0144-8420
e-ISSN
1742-3406
Journal
Radiation Protection Dosimetry
Quellenangaben
Volume: 37,
Issue: 1,
Pages: 31-41
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publishing Place
Oxford
Reviewing status
Peer reviewed
Institute(s)
Institute of Radiation Protection (ISS)