An extended tabulation of effective dose equivalent from neutrons incident on a male anthropomorphic phantom

The limiting quantity in radiation protection for whole body exposures in the United States is currently based on the effective dose equivalent (EDE). Because EDE is computed from the individual organ dose equivalents, it is essentially impossible to measure EDE directly. However, calculated organ dose equivalents, and the resulting EDE, can be correlated to the response of a detector located at one or more locations on the human body. Until now, calculations of the effective dose equivalent and corresponding organ dose equivalents have been tabulated for relatively few standard irradiation geometries and energies. In this work, a more extensive tabulation of EDE is compiled and compared to the works of other researchers. This tabulation includes calculations of the EDE for a total of 493 different combinations of source particle energy and angle of incidence. This extensive tabulation of the EDE should allow researchers to improve algorithms for the evaluation of neutron personnel dosimetry.