Dose conversion coefficients for neutron external exposures with five postures: walking, sitting, bending, kneeling, and squatting.

ABSTRACT: In a previous study, posture-dependent dose coefficients (DCs) for photon external exposures were calculated using the adult male and female mesh-type reference computational phantoms (MRCPs) of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) that had been transformed into five non-standing postures (i.e. walking, sitting, bending, kneeling, and squatting). As an extension, the present study was conducted to establish another DC dataset for external exposures to neutrons by performing Monte Carlo radiation transport simulations with the adult male and female MRCPs in the five non-standing postures. The resulting dataset included the DCs for absorbed doses (i.e., organ/tissue-averaged absorbed doses) delivered to 29 individual organs/tissues, and for effective doses for neutr

SUBMITTER: Yeom YS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9923510 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature