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Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2005 115(1-4):530-535; doi:10.1093/rpd/nci116
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Comparison of effective doses from various monoenergetic particles based on the stylised and the VIP-Man tomographic models

X. George Xu1,*, T. C. Chao2 and A. Bozkurt3

1 Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics Program, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA
2 Division of Radiological Technology, School of Medical Technology, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan, Taiwan
3 Department of Physics, Harran University, 63300 Sanliurfa, Turkey

* Corresponding author: xug2{at}rpi.edu

This study compares the effective doses from a MIRD-type stylised model with those derived from the scaled-down version of the tomographic VIP-Man model for photon, electron, neutron and proton beams. The effective dose results from these two models show that they differ from each other within ~10% for common high-energy photon beams, within ~16% for neutrons, and within ~4% for high-energy proton beams. However, for low-energy protons and common electron beams, the effective doses can be different in >100%. It is concluded that the use of a single tomographic models will not improve the operational radiation protection dosimetry involving external beam exposures.


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