Re: Dose Estimation When Lead Aprons are Worn

["Gregg Claycamp" <hgc2+@pitt.edu>]

at the risk of blowing our own horn, some of these issues were addressed in:

1) Mateya, C.F., and Claycamp, H.G.  Phantom-derived estimation of effective
dose equivalent from X-rays with or without a lead apron.  Health Physics.
72, 842-847 (1997).

2) Rosenstein, M., Comment on "Phantom-derived estimation of effective dose
equivalent from X-rays with or without a lead apron." Health Physics 74(4),
489 (1998).

3) Mateya, C.F., and Claycamp, H.G.  Response to Rosenstein, Health Physics
74(4), 490 (1998).


-----Original Message-----
From: Sandy Perle <sandyfl@earthlink.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Tuesday, December 22, 1998 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: Dose Estimation When Lead Aprons are Worn


>> "You might want to let the RADSAFERS know that the techniques of
estimating
>> effective dose when leaded aprons are worn are explained in NCRP Report
No.
>> 122, "Use of Personal Monitors to Estimate Effective Dose Equivalent and
>> Effective Dose to Workers for External Exposure to Low-LET Radiation."
>
>The only caution regarding the above is in the situation where the
>lead effectively attenuates all of the interacting exposure, and there
>is no new response on the dosimeter. The estimation can only be
>made if there is a positive net response. If there is no net response,
>there is no way to provide for an effective dose calculation. To do
>so would be highly speculative.
>
>
>
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