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Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2004 110(1-4):351-355; doi:10.1093/rpd/nch141
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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Vol. 110 Nos. 1-4 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved

Aircrew exposure monitoring: results of 2001 to 2003 studies

F. Spurny1,*, K. Turek1, B. Vlcek1 and Ts. Dachev2

1 Nuclear Physics Institute, Department of Radiation Dosimetry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Truhlárce 39/64, 18086 Praha 8, Czech Republic
2 Solar Terrestrial Influence Laboratory, B.A.S., Sofia, Acad. G. Bonchev Street 3, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

* Corresponding author: spurny{at}ujf.cas.cz

Aircrew exposure represents one of the recent subjects of occupational individual dosimetry. Since 1991 many new results have been found; there is however a need to gather further data on this exposure and its variation with geomagnetic position, solar activity and flight route parameters. Since 2001, many individual and six long-term monitoring programmes have been conducted onboard aircraft of Czech Airlines (CSA). In these programmes, a Si-diode spectrometer was fixed in an aircraft. Together with it, passive dosemeters thermoluminescent detector, track-etch based neutron dosemeter linear energy transfer and spectrometer) were exposed. More than 700 regular commercial flights were monitored in this manner. CSA supplied us also with full navigation data, which allowed us to calculate the exposure levels using EPCARD 3.2 and CARI6 codes. Direct experimental readings obtained with the detectors mentioned above were interpreted on the basis of calibrations in on-Earth reference fields and compared with calculated data. A satisfactory correlation between all sets of data was observed.


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