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[Scientific substantiation of experimental determination of the radiation effective dose in an interplanetary flight]
Abstract:
The present-day method of effective dose determination with a simplified human body model (spherical phantom) lacks the parameter of vehicle shielding. Introduction of the parameter will increase only the effective depth of various critical organs in the spherical phantom which can be easily accounted for during preliminary calculations. In future these facts, as well as data about impacts of the angular distribution of galactic cosmic rays (GCR), will be integrated into the calculation procedure. Analysis of the GCR dose contribution will not be very intricate owing to the GCR spectrum stability and isotropy of the angular distribution. Thus, basic calculation and measurement procedures will be fully unaltered.

