Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on January 8, 2007
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2007 125(1-4):41-46; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncl543
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State-of-the-art dosimetric methods for internal and external exposures: conclusions of a EURADOS action
1 CIEMAT-Internal Dosimetry, Avda Complutene 22 28040 Madrid, Spain
2 ENEA-ION-IRP, via dei Colli 16 40136 Bologna, Italy
3 RPII, 3 Clonskeagh Square Dublin, Ireland
4 NRG-RE, Arnhem The Netherlands
5 SSI, Stockholm Sweden
6 Institute of Nuclear Physics, Radzikowskiego 152 PL 31 442 Krakow, Poland
7 PSI, 5232 Villigen Switzerland
*Corresponding author: ma.lopez{at}ciemat.es
In radiation protection dosimetry the quantity of interest is the effective dose (E); the dose limit to an adult worker applies to the sum of the relevant doses from external exposures and the relevant committed effective doses from intakes of radionuclides, during the same period of time. A EURADOS study was carried out to investigate how the results from personal dosemeters for external radiation, from workplace monitoring and from monitoring of internal exposures can be combined into a consistent system of individual monitoring. The integration of dosimetric methods and data for external and internal radiation require the complete characterisation of the occupational exposure present at the workplace, and the availability of adequate equipment and tools for the assessment of effective dose. To evaluate the capability of services to accomplish this approach, a European Dosimetry Network has been established among 28 European countries through the respective contact-persons and their dosimetric facilities which collaborated with EURADOS providing relevant data about performance and legal aspects. The information collected was presented as a monograph in Radiation Protection Dosimetry in 2004. The more relevant conclusions of this study are presented here.