Re: Skin Dose Assessment from Whole Body Contamination Meters from No

["Tosh Ushino" <tushino@icnpharm.com>]

John,

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) has been using whole-body counter
result to calculate skin dose from noble gas for several years. It is based on
the paper in Radiation Protection Management written by Mike Lantz et. al. of
Palo Verde.

I'd suggest you contact someone at Health Physics Engineering at SONGS or Mike
Lantz at Palo Verde for the procedure. Depending on your particular situation or
the type of whole-body counter you use, you will probably have to develop your
own site-specific conversion factor.

Good luck!
Tosh Ushino
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