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Doses from Radiation exposure
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The Task Group on Dose Calculations (DOCAL) is concerned with dosimetry for both external and internal radiation exposures.
The latest report from DOCAL is Publication 107 entitled:
Nuclear Decay Data for Dosimetric Calculations, providing a replacement for Publication 38. It consists of an explanatory text, with an accompanying CD that provides data on the radiation emissions of 1252 radioisotopes of 97 elements. A report is also nearing completion on reference anatomical models for the adult male and female. These voxel-based computational phantoms, based on segmented tomographic images, will replace the stylised phantoms used previously in organ and tissue dose calculations for external and internal radiations. Work is also in progress to improve the calculation of doses to regions within the skeleton that represent targets for the induction of bone cancer and leukaemia. Reference models for children will also be developed. The new models will be used in the calculation of revised dose coefficients for exposures to external radiation and intake of radionuclides.
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