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ArticleRadiation measurements2015

Calculation of dose conversion factors for doses in the fingernails to organ doses at external gamma irradiation in air.

A M Khailov, A I Ivannikov, V G Skvortsov, V F Stepanenko, S P Orlenko, A B Flood, B B Williams, H M Swartz

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Article in Radiation measurements, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

A M KhailovMedical Radiological Research Center named by A. Tsyb, Obninsk, Russia.
A I IvannikovMedical Radiological Research Center named by A. Tsyb, Obninsk, Russia.
V G SkvortsovMedical Radiological Research Center named by A. Tsyb, Obninsk, Russia.
V F StepanenkoMedical Radiological Research Center named by A. Tsyb, Obninsk, Russia.
S P OrlenkoMedical Radiological Research Center named by A. Tsyb, Obninsk, Russia.
A B FloodEPR Center for the Study of Viable Systems, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA.
B B WilliamsEPR Center for the Study of Viable Systems, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA.
H M SwartzEPR Center for the Study of Viable Systems, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA.
Medical Radiological Research Center · RUDartmouth College · US

Funding

Scientific and Administrative Core: Dartmouth Medical SchoolU19AI091173 · NIAID · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI SWARTS, STEVEN GREGORY · 2010 to 2014
$16.3M
NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI091173
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Absorbed doses to fingernails and organs were calculated for a set of homogenous external gamma-ray irradiation geometries in air. The doses were obtained by stochastic modeling of the ionizing particle transport (Monte Carlo method) for a mathematical human phantom with arms and hands placed loosely along the sides of the body. The resulting dose conversion factors for absorbed doses in fingernails can be used to assess the dose distribution and magnitude in practical dose reconstruction problems. For purposes of estimating dose in a large population exposed to radiation in order to triage people for treatment of acute radiation syndrome, the calculated data for a range of energies having a width of from 0.05 to 3.5 MeV were used to convert absorbed doses in fingernails to corresponding doses in organs and the whole body as well as the effective dose. Doses were assessed based on assumed rates of radioactive fallout at different time periods following a nuclear explosion.

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EPR dosimetryfingernailsgamma irradiationMonte-Carlo

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PMID26347593
PMCPMC4559862
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