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Irradiator Commissioning and Dosimetry for Assessment of LQ α and β Parameters, Radiation Dosing Schema, and in vivo Dose Deposition
Published on: March 11, 2021
Application of new imaging and calculation techniques to activity and dose assessment in the case of a 106Ru
L de Carlan1, I Aubineau-Lanièce, A Lemosquet
1Institute of Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety, Human Health Protection and Dosimetry Department, IRSN, BP 17, F-92262 Fontenay-aux-Roses Cedex, France. Loic.decarlan@irsn.fr
Abstract:
The aim of this paper is to describe the dosimetric evaluation of a point contamination that occurred in a laboratory during the examination of an irradiated sample. The incident led to point contamination of the operator's finger due to the presence of mainly 106Ru, with its progeny, 106Rh. The paper reports on the activity and dose assessment, performed using several methods. The measured activity was obtained using a conventional device based on a germanium detector and confirmed using software developed at IRSN, based on reconstruction of voxel phantom associated with the Monte Carlo N-Particle code (MCNP) for in vivo measurement. Two dose assessment calculations were performed using both analytical and Monte Carlo methods, applying the same approach as for activity assessment based on the personal computational phantom of the finger. The results are compared, followed by a discussion on the suitability of the tools described in this study.
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