Overview of the ICRP/ICRU adult reference computational phantoms and dose conversion coefficients for external idealised exposures
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: This paper reviews the ICRP Publications 110 and 116 describing the reference computational phantoms and dose conversion coefficients for external exposures. The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) in its 2007 Recommendations made several revisions to the methods of calculation of the protection quantities. In order to implement these recommendations, the DOCAL task group of the ICRP developed computational phantoms representing the reference adult male and female and then calculated a set of dose conversion coefficients for various types of idealised external exposures. This paper focuses on the dose conversion coefficients for neutrons and investigates their relationship with the conversion coefficients of the protection and operational quantities of ICRP Publication 74. Contributing factors to the differences between these sets of conversion coefficients are discussed in terms of the changes in phantoms employed and the radiation and tissue weighting factors.
Source: Radiation Protection Dosimetry
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nct304
Institutions: Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Helmholtz Munich, University of Florida, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology, Instituto de Radioproteção e Dosimetria, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, European Organization for Nuclear Research
Language: English
Topic: Radiation Dose and Imaging
Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2000522054