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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on June 11, 2007
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/ncm311
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MONTE CARLO COMPARISON OF THE ST PETERSBURG PHANTOM WITH A BOMAB PHANTOM IN THE HML'S WHOLE-BODY COUNTER

Gary H. Kramer*, Kevin Capello and Jeremy Sung

Human Monitoring Laboratory, Radiation Surveillance and Health Assessment Division, Radiation Protection Bureau, 775 Brookfield Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 1C1

* Corresponding author: gary_h_kramer{at}hc-sc.gc.ca

Received March 8, 2007, amended April 17, 2007, accepted April 23, 2007

Three sizes of the St Petersburg phantom have been compared to six sizes of BOMAB phantoms measured by a virtual whole-body counter similar to the one in use in the Human Monitoring Laboratory using Monte Carlo simulations. The previously published data comparing the St Petersburg Reference Man sized phantom with a similar sized Bottle Manikin Absorber Phantoms (BOMAB) phantom at 662 keV is supported; however, the simulations also show that the smaller sized St Petersburg phantoms do not agree well with smaller BOMAB phantoms. It is concluded that the St Petersburg phantoms are system dependent meaning that all sizes of the St Petersburg phantoms should be experimentally compared over a wide photon energy range against corresponding BOMAB phantoms to validate their use for calibrating whole-body counters.


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