Response of a tissue equivalent proportional counter to neutrons

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 551-556

  Badhwar, G D ^a   Robbins, D E ^b   Gibbons, F ^c   Braby, L A ^d  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b USRA   (United States)

^c LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

High LET radiation; Microdosimetry; Neutron

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; DOSIMETERS; GAMMA RAYS; NEUTRONS;

TISSUE EQUIVALENT PROPORTIONAL COUNTERS (TEPC);

PROPORTIONAL COUNTERS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE RADIATION HEALTH; NEUTRON; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION RESPONSE; SPACE FLIGHT;

NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE RADIATION HEALTH;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; NEUTRONS; RADIATION MONITORING; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0036882609     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(01)00273-6     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Badhwar G.D., Cucinotta F.A., Braby L.A., Konradi A. Measurements on the Shuttle of the LET spectra of galactic cosmic radiation and comparison with the radiation transport model. Radiat. Res. 139:1994;344-351.
2. Bartlett, D.R., Hager, L.G., Tanner, R.J., Steele, J.D., 2001. Measurements of the high energy neutron component of cosmic radiation field in aircraft using etched track dosemeters. Radiat. Meas. 33, 243-253.
3. Beaujean, R., 1998. University of Kiel, Germany, Private Communication.
4. Birattari, C., Ferrari, A., Hofert, M., Otto, T., Rancati, T., Silari, M., 1997. Recent results at the CERN-EC high energy reference field facility. In: Proceedings of the Third Specialists Meeting on Shielding Aspects of Accelerators, Targets and Irradiation Facilities, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 12-13 May 1997, pp. 219-234.
5. Hofert, M., Stevenson, G.R., 1994. The CERN-CEC reference field facility. In: Proceeding of the Eighth International Conference on Radiation Shielding, Annual Nuclear Society, Arlington, TX, USA, April 1994, p. 635.
6. Kunz A., Arend E.D., Gerdung S., Grillmaier R.E., Lim T., Pihet P. The Hamburg area monitor HANDI: characteristics and optimization of the operational instrument. Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 44:1992;213-218.
7. Nava, E., Otto, T., Silari, M., 1997. Reference dose equivalent values for the 1997 CERN-EC runs. Technical Memorandum TIS-RP/TM97-22, 12 August 1997.
8. Otto, T., Silari, M., 1996. The July/August 1996 run at the CERN-CEC reference facility. Technical Memorandum TIS-RP/TM/96-25, 10 October 1996.
9. Shinn J.L., Badhwar G.D., Xapsos M.A., Cucinotta F.A., Wilson J.W. An analysis of energy deposition in a tissue equivalent proportional counter onboard the space shuttle. Radiat. Meas. 30:1999;19-28.
10. Stevenson G.R., Fasso A., Hofert M., Tuyn J.W.N. Dosimetry at high energy accelerators. Radioprotection. 31(2):1996;193-210.