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Title Impact of new operational dosimetric quantities on individual monitoring services
Author(s) Caresana, M (Milan, Polytech.) ; Garlati, L (Milan, Polytech.) ; Zorloni, G (Milan, Polytech.) ; Behrens, R (Braunschweig, Phys. Tech. Bund.) ; Otto, T (CERN) ; Minchillo, G (Euratom, Ispra) ; Rossi, F (Fisica Sanitaria AOU Careggi, Firenze)
Publication 2021
Number of pages 12
In: Journal of Radiological Protection 41 (2021) 1110-1121
DOI 10.1088/1361-6498/ac0d63
Subject category Health Physics and Radiation Effects
Abstract The new operational dosimetric quantities framework, proposed in the ICRU95 report, has stimulated the scientific community to start investigations that aim to assess its impact on radiation protection practices. As part of this effort, the present study describes an inter-comparison exercise among individual monitoring services (IMSs) on passive whole-body dosimetry. The inter-comparison is performed in terms of both the existing operational dose quantity $H_p(10)$ and its proposed replacement $H_p$, to allow an evaluation of the actions that may be necessary to adapt dosimetry systems to the proposed quantity. For two of the tested IMSs, simple modifications to the detector response function, or the dose calculation algorithm, were sufficient to obtain results within acceptable limits. However, these approaches are not sufficient to give a level of performance comparable to that achieved in terms of $H_p(10)$. This may require a modification to dosemeter design
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