Practical overview of the ICRP Publication 145 phantoms for use with MCNP

This paper provides a practical overview of the mesh-type reference phantoms (MRCPs) published by the ICRP by providing supplementary guidance on the proper implementation of using the MRCPs in computational codes, such as Monte Carlo N-Particle. Various validation scenarios for photon and neutron exposures were also examined where published values were reproduced using the MRCPs for both external and internal exposures. Generally, the MRCPs performed well in the validation scenarios with the values reproduced being within 10% of the published values. (authors)