Re: effective dose info needed

["Vladimir Vasiliev" <vnvasil@orc.ru>]

Organ doses due to X-ray examinations were calculated by 
Jones and Wall and published by National Radiological Protection Board 
(Jones D.G., Wall B.F. Organ doses from medical X-ray examinations 
calculated using Monte Carlo techniques. NRPB, Chilton, 1985). The 
results are for adults only. Look at the NRPB server  -
http://www.nrpb.org.uk

Numerous Monte Carlo calculations were carried out in 80-ths in Russia.
We used math phantoms  of 0, 1, 5, 10, 15 years old and adults and 
calculated the organ doses  in active bone marrow, lungs, breast, 
thyroid, testes, ovaries, stomach, liver and pancreas - and effective 
dose equivalent. Some measurements were performed in Alderson Rando
 and bone-paraffin phantoms with TLD. All results were published in two 
handbooks (R.V.Stavitsky et. al. Doses for children due to X-ray 
examinations. Kabur Publisher, 1993, Moscow, 164pp and 
R.V.Stavitsky et. al. Radiation protection in medical roentgenology. 
Kabur Publisher, 1994, Moscow, 272pp). Its contain detail organ 
dose tables, unfortunately, in Russian.

A few years ago I integrated these results in a computer program (X-Dose)
 to find, normalize, save and print organ doses. It contains the organ
doses
 for about 600 combinations "procedure - projection - area - high voltage".
 You can download a preliminary MS DOS version of the program from 
my WWW home page (http://www.orc.ru/~vnvasil). Now more flexible
 Windows version is available. Again, this program is in Russian, because 
no interest outside former USSR was found.

And the last, a part of dose data was incorporated in hardware. 
One Russian small company produces the INDOR-S device. It can be 
connected to X-ray machine, reads anode current and time, calculates 
the effective dose equivalent (not organ doses) on the base of data in 
the ROM and shows the result in digital panel.

If you need detail, please, contact me.

Vladimir Vasiliev
Dosimetry Research Lab, MRID&S, Moscow, Russia
vnvasil@orc.ru