Organ and effective dose coefficients for cranial and caudal irradiation geometries: Neutrons

Journal Article · Mon Aug 29 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Radiation Protection Dosimetry

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncw262· OSTI ID:1356889

Veinot, K. G. ^[1]; Eckerman, K. F. ^[2]; Hertel, N. E. ^[3]; Hiller, M. M. ^[4]

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1. Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Easterly Scientific, Knoxville, TN (United States)
2. Easterly Scientific, Knoxville, TN (United States)
3. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
4. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Dose coefficients based on the recommendations of International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) Publication 103 were reported in ICRP Publication 116, the revision of ICRP Publication 74 and ICRU Publication 57 for the six reference irradiation geometries: anterior–posterior, posterior–anterior, right and left lateral, rotational and isotropic. In this work, dose coefficients for neutron irradiation of the body with parallel beams directed upward from below the feet (caudal) and downward from above the head (cranial) using the ICRP 103 methodology were computed using the MCNP 6.1 radiation transport code. The dose coefficients were determined for neutrons ranging in energy from 10^–9 MeV to 10 GeV. Here, at energies below about 500 MeV, the cranial and caudal dose coefficients are less than those for the six reference geometries reported in ICRP Publication 116.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Work for Others (WFO); USDOE
• Grant/Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1356889
• Journal Information: Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Vol. 175, Issue 1; ISSN 0144-8420
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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