Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on August 16, 2005
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2006 118(1):102-105; doi:10.1093/rpd/nci336
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TECHNICAL NOTE
Dose estimation by EPR spectroscopy of tooth enamel in Chinese medical diagnostic X-ray workers
1 Institute of Radiation Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin 300192, People's Republic of China
2 Central Laboratory of Nankai University, Tianjin 300192, People's Republic of China
* Corresponding author: zhangla{at}public.tpt.tj.cn
Received April 27, 2005, amended July 13, 2005, accepted July 17, 2005
Individual accumulated doses were determined by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy of tooth enamel in Chinese medical diagnostic X-ray workers. Dose determination was performed using a specially developed automatic spectrum processing procedure. The determined dose values owing to X rays for the three workers with entry year (the year they began their career as medical diagnostic X-ray workers) in the 1950s ranged from 435 to 903 mGy, the converted effective doses ranged from 91 to 190 mSv.