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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on July 7, 2006
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2006 121(3):209-210; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncl068
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Personal dose equivalent, Hp(d), and reference point for calibration

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Personal dose equivalent, Hp(d), is an interesting quantity. It is defined(1) as the dose equivalent in soft tissue, at an appropriate depth, d, below a specified point on the body. (Soft tissue, for this definition, has as its provenance the footnote in ICRU Report 39(2) ‘defined as in the ICRU sphere’, i.e. ICRU 4-element soft tissue.) For calibration purposes, the definition is extended to include the calibration phantom(3). The calibration quantity is then the dose equivalent at a depth d below the point where the dosemeter is to be positioned for calibration, in a phantom composed of ICRU tissue of the same shape and size as the calibration phantom(3).

Two interesting considerations follow from this definition. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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