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Skin dose from radionuclide contamination on clothing
D C Taylor1, E M Hussein, P S Yuen
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.
Abstract:
Skin dose due to radionuclide contamination on clothing is calculated by Monte Carlo simulation of electron and photon radiation transport. Contamination due to a hot particle on some selected clothing geometries of cotton garment is simulated. The effect of backscattering in the surrounding air is taken into account. For each combination of source-clothing geometry, the dose distribution function in the skin, including the dose at tissue depths of 7 mg cm(-2) and 1,000 mg cm(-2), is calculated by simulating monoenergetic photon and electron sources. Skin dose due to contamination by a radionuclide is then determined by proper weighting of the monoenergetic dose distribution functions. The results are compared with the VARSKIN point-kernel code for some radionuclides, indicating that the latter code tends to underestimate the dose for gamma and high energy beta sources while it overestimates skin dose for low energy beta sources.
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