RE: BetaData Format

["Morgan, Ben" <ben.morgan@pgnmail.com>]

Tom,



The betadata.dat layout is as follows:



first line: nuclide name

second line: average energy in MeV, ninety percentile distance (X90) in cm,

intensity [relative abundance]

third, fourth, and fifth lines: FBETA values



For more information about VARSKIN and betadata.dat, see:



Michael C. Williams

A Method for Adding Nuclides to VARSKIN and QUINCE Skin Dose Calculation

Software

Radiation Protection Management, Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 25 - 40

November/December 1987



If you don't have this issue, RPM is published by Radiation Safety

Associates, Inc. at http://www.radpro.com/rpm.html 

and you can probably get a reprint from them.



Regards,



Ben



ben.morgan@pgnmail.com





-----Original Message-----

From: Goff, Tom [mailto:Tom.Goff@wipp.ws]

Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 8:45 AM

To: 'radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu'

Cc: Kump, Dave; Hayes, Robert

Subject: BetaData Format





Does anyone have the method to decode the beta spectrum in the VARSKIN

BetaData file?



We are looking for a way to determine the relative abundance of each energy

range from the record format.



Thanks



Tom Goff

WIPP ALARA Coordinator

WIPP Integrated Waste Operations

(505) 234-8861

(fax)  885-4562

e-mail  Tom.Goff@WIPP.ws

page (505) 234-8850  (pager 479)

P.O. Box 2078

Carlsbad, NM 88221

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