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Kevin Capello1, Gary Kramer, Stephanie Kedzior
1Human Monitoring Laboratory, Radiation Protection Bureau, 775 Brookfield Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1C1, Canada.
Abstract:
The Human Monitoring Laboratory (HML) at Health Canada collaborated with a nuclear industry facility to help characterize a contamination event with a male worker who showed contamination after a routine whole body count. Monte Carlo simulation was used to model the whole body counter (WBC) using an appropriately matched male voxel phantom. Ratios of the resulting modeled detector counting efficiencies were used to help determine the most likely area of contamination in or on the worker, thereby helping to approximate the potential dose received by the worker.
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