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- Title
APPLICATION OF A SITTING MIRD PHANTOM FOR EFFECTIVE DOSE CALCULATIONS.
- Authors
Olsher, Richard H.; van Riper, Kenneth A.
- Abstract
In typical realistic scenarios, dose factors due to 60Co contaminated steel, used in consumer products, cannot be approximated by standard exposure geometries. It is then necessary to calculate the effective dose using an appropriate anthropomorphic phantom. MCNP calculations were performed using a MIRD human model in two settings. In the first, a male office worker is sitting in a chair containing contaminated steel, surrounded by contaminated furniture. In the second, a male driver is seated inside an automobile, the steel of which is uniformly contaminated. To accurately calculate the dose to lower body organs, especially the gonads, it was essential to modify the MIRD model to simulate two sitting postures: chair and driving position. The phantom modifications are described, and the results of the calculations are presented. In the case of the automobile scenarios, results are compared to those obtained using an isotropic fluence-to-dose conversion function.
- Subjects
IMAGING phantoms; RADIATION dosimetry; RADIOBIOLOGY research; COMMERCIAL products; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of radiation; RADIATION doses
- Publication
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 2005, Vol 116, Issue 1-4, p392
- ISSN
0144-8420
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/rpd/nci087