Re: X-Ray Machine Shielding Software?

["Milton E. McLain" <mem122a@lanl.gov>]

At 06:35 AM 6/7/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Bruce Pickett wrote:
>> 
>>  Two weeks ago, I asked a question on RADSAFE for a colleague: is there any
>>  software available to calculate shielding for x-ray machines, based on
>>  ANSI N43.3-1993 (and NCRP 49) methodology. I have received no answers to
>>  this question. If anyone knows of any such software, please let me know.
>
>There is a program by Simpkins called KUX.  It can be downloaded from the
HP Homepage 
>(Bruce Busby's great web site) although I am not sure that the program
there is the 
>most recent version.  This program also accounts for 3 phase x-ray
machines, something 
>NCRP 49 does NOT do, resulting in underestimation of shielding
requirements, or at least 
>less conservative shielding requirements.
>
>-- 
>Kent Lambert, CHP
>lambert@hal.hahnemann.edu
>
>All opinions are well reasoned and insightful.
>Needless to say, they are not [necessarily] the
>opinions of my employer. - paraphrased from Michael Feldman
>

Bruce,

Also, there is an X-ray shielding program entitled "NCRP 49" (or something
akin to that) which is available gratis from the RSIC at Oak Ridge.  As Kent
correctly points out, this (NCRP 49)is a "simple-minded" calculation and one
should be aware of its limitations.

Milton McLain