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Ratios between effective doses for tomographic and mathematician models due to internal exposure of photons

  • 1. Centro Regional de Ciencias Nucleares do Nordeste (CRCN-NE/CNEN-PE), Recife, PE (Brazil)
  • 2. Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, PE (Brazil). Dept. de Energia Nuclear
  • 3. Centro Federal de Educacao Tecnologica de Pernambuco (CEFET-PE), Recife, PE (Brazil)
  • 4. Escola Politecnica de Pernambuco, Recife, PE (Brazil)

Description

The development of new and sophisticated Monte Carlo codes and tomographic human phantoms or voxels motivated the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) to revise the traditional models of exposure, which have been used to calculate effective dose coefficients for organs and tissues based on mathematician phantoms known as MIRD5. This paper shows the results of calculations using tomographic phantoms MAX (Male Adult voXel) and FAX (Female Adult voXel), recently developed by the authors as well as with the phantoms ADAM and EVA, of specific genres, type MIRD5, coupled to the EGS4 Monte Carlo and MCNP4C codes, for internal exposure with photons of energies between 10 keV and 4 MeV to several organs sources. Effective Doses for both models, tomographic and mathematician, will be compared separately as a function of the Monte Carlo code replacement, of compositions of human tissues and the anatomy reproduced through tomographs. The results indicate that for photon internal exposure, the use of models of exposure based in voxel, increases the values of effective doses up to 70% for some organs sources considered in this study, when compared with the corresponding results obtained with phantoms of MIRD-5 type

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Original title (Portuguese)
Razoes entre doses efetivas para modelos tomograficos e modelos matematicos devido as exposicoes internas de fotons

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
11 p.
Report number
INIS-BR--13242

Conference

Title
4. international congress on radiological protection; 1. Brazilian congress on radiological protection
Acronym
Radio 2005
Dates
2-5 Nov 2005
Place
Sao Paulo, SP (Brazil)