Re: Shallow Dose Calculation from low energy photons

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Paul Kehler


At 05:00 PM 11/12/96 -0600, you wrote:
>I would like to estimate the shallow dose to the skin from a skin
>contamination event where the contaminant emits low energy photons, say
>10 to 60 keV.  I am aware of the use of VARSKIN for estimating dose from
>beta contamination.  Is there a similar code for low energy photons?  
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>I have done the point source calculations from first principles, but I
>want to calculate the dose to a larger area from a distributed source. 
>I would appreciate any pointers to references for this type of
>calculation.  
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>Thanks in advance.
>-- 
>Mike Lewandowski
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