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The flight-time equivalent dose concept is the creation of Ulf Stahmer, a Canadian professional engineer working in the field of radioactive materials transport. It was first presented in the poster session [1] at the 18th International Symposium of the Packaging and Transport of Radioactive Materials (PATRAM) held in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan where the poster received an Aoki Award for distinguished ...
BRET units are used as a measure of low level radiation exposure. The health hazards of low doses of ionizing radiation are unknown and controversial, because the effects, mainly cancer and genetic damage , take many years to appear, and the incidence due to radiation exposure can't be statistically separated from the many other causes of these ...
The gamma ray field can be characterized by the exposure rate (in units of, for instance, roentgen per hour). For a point source, the exposure rate will be linearly proportional to the source's radioactivity and inversely proportional to the square of the distance, [32] F = Γ×α / r 2
Equivalent time of background radiation [16] CT of the head: Single series: 2 mSv: 8 months With + without radiocontrast: 4 mSv: 16 months Chest: CT of the chest: 7 mSv: 2 years CT of the chest, lung cancer screening protocol: 1.5 mSv: 6 months Chest X-ray: 0.1 mSv: 10 days Heart: Coronary CT angiography: 12 mSv: 4 years Coronary CT calcium ...
This mode of operation provides real-time dynamic indication of the radiation rate, and the principle has found widespread application in radiation survey meters used in health physics. An instrument which totalises the events detected over a time period is known as a scaler. This colloquial name comes from the early days of automatic radiation ...
The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) once adopted fixed conversion for occupational exposure, although these have not appeared in recent documents: [6] 8 h = 1 day 40 h = 1 week 50 week = 1 yr. Therefore, for occupation exposures of that time period, 1 mrem/h = 2,000 mrem/yr 0.5 mrem/h = 1,000 mrem/yr
Equivalent dose (symbol H) is a dose quantity representing the stochastic health effects of low levels of ionizing radiation on the human body which represents the probability of radiation-induced cancer and genetic damage.
Most fluoroscopic x-ray equipment can provide an estimate of the cumulative dose that would have resulted to a point on the skin if the x-ray beam was stationary during the complete procedure. Such an estimate is derived from the fluoroscopic technique factors and the total exposure time, including any image recording, or from built-in ...