Journal article
COMPARISON OF TWO LEG PHANTOMS CONTAINING 241AM IN BONE
Health physics (1958), Vol.101(3), pp.248-258
09/2011
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/114604
Abstract
Three facilities (CIEMAT, HMGU and HML) have used their in vivo counters to compare two leg phantoms. One was commercially produced with Am activity artificially added to the bone inserts. The other, the United States Transuranium and Uranium Registriesʼ (USTUR) leg phantom, was manufactured from Am-contaminated bones resulting from an intake. The comparison of the two types of leg phantoms showed that the two phantoms are not similar in their activity distributions. An error in a bone activity estimate could be quite large if the commercial leg phantom is used to estimate what is contained in the USTUR leg phantom and, consequently, a real person. As the latter phantom was created as a result of a real contamination, it is deemed to be the more representative of what would actually happen if a person were internally contaminated with Am.
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- Title
- COMPARISON OF TWO LEG PHANTOMS CONTAINING 241AM IN BONE
- Creators
- Gary H Kramer - Human Monitoring Laboratory, Radiation Protection Bureau, 775 Brookfield Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 1C1 Canada; † Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, GmbH, Institute of Radiation Protection, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany; ‡ On leave from Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, 65511 Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt; § Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, Internal Dose Assessment Laboratory, DRPH/SDI/LEDI, BP-17 F-92262 Fontenay-aux-Roses Cedex, France; Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Avda. Complutense, 22, Madrid 28040, Spain; †† United States Transuranium and Uranium Registries, Washington State University, 2340 Lindberg Loop, Richland, WA 99354Barry HauckKevin CapelloWerner RühmNabil El-FaramawyDavid BroggioDidier FranckMaria Antonia LopezTeresa NavarroJuan Francisco NavarroBegoña PerezSergei Tolmachev
- Publication Details
- Health physics (1958), Vol.101(3), pp.248-258
- Academic Unit
- Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of
- Publisher
- Health Physics Society
- Identifiers
- 99900548279201842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article