Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on March 12, 2008
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2008 130(3):358-367; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncn059
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AIDE: internal dosimetry software
1 Santa Fe, NM, USA
2 Institute of Radiation Protection and Dosimetry/CNEN, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
3 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
4 International Atomic Energy Agency, Wagrammer Strasse 5, P.O. Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria
* Corresponding author: contact{at}aidesoftware.com/lbertellia{at}land.gov
Received October 18, 2007, amended January 16, 2008, accepted January 21, 2008
AIDE (Activity and Internal Dose Estimates) is a software for calculating activities in compartments and committed doses due to occupational exposures, and for performing intake and dose estimates using bioassay data. It has been continuously developed and tested for more than 20 years. Its calculation core has been applied in several situations, like performing all dose estimates due to 137Cs intakes, which occurred during the Goiania accident in 1987; performing quality assurance of the ICRP Task Group on Dose Calculations regarding calculations of activities in compartments and generation of dose coefficients for adults due to intakes by inhalation, ingestion and injection of several radionuclides; and producing the tables of activities in compartments and dose coefficients using the NCRP Wound Model for the NCRP report. It provides several capabilities like performing calculations using modified Human Respiratory Tract Model parameters for the mechanical transport, blood absorption and partitions of deposit in the AI region. The existing systemic models can also be modified or new ones can be entered. All estimate procedures are in accordance with the methods presented in the ICRP-78 Publication, in the IAEA Safety Reports Series no. 37 and in the IDEAS Project Guidelines 2006.