A mathematical model of aircraft for evaluating the effects of shielding structure on aircrew exposure

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 116, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 331-335

  Ferrari, A ^a,b   Pelliccioni, Maurizio ^c   Villari, R ^c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AIRPLANE CREW; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMIC RADIATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SHIELD; VALIDATION STUDY; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; COSMIC RADIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 31544473128     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nci144     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. International Commission on Radiological Protection. 1990 Recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection. ICRP Publication 60. Ann. ICRP, 21(1-3) (Oxford: Pergamon Press) (1991).
2. Council Directive 96/29/Euratom of 13 May 1996 laying down basic safety standards for the protection of the health of workers and the general public against the dangers arising from ionising radiation. Official Journal of the European Communities, L159, 39 (29 June 1996).
3. Reitz, G. Radiation Environment in the Stratosphere. Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 48(1), 5-20 (1993).
4. Kurochkin, I. A., Wiegel, B. and Siebert, B. R. L. Study of the radiation environment caused by galactic cosmic rays at flight altitudes, at the summit of the Zugspitze and at PTB Braunschweig. Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 83(4), 281-291 (1999).
5. Roesler S., Heinrich W. and Schraube H. Calculation of radiation fields in the atmosphere and comparison to experimental data, Rad. Res. 149, 87-97 (1998).
6. Ferrari, A., Pelliccioni, M. and Rancati, T. The role of the quantities used in radiological protection for the assessment of the exposure to cosmic radiation. Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 83(3), 199-210 (1999).
7. Friedberg, W., Duke, F. E., Snyder, L., Faulkner, D. N., O'Brien, K., Darden, E. B. and Parker, D. E. The cosmic radiation environment at air carrier flight altitudes and possible associated health risks. Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 48, 21-25 (1993).
8. Lewis, B. J., Bennett, L. G. I., Green, A. R., McCall, M. J., Ellaschuk, B:, Butler, A. and Pierre, M. Galactic and solar radiation exposure to aircrew during a solar cycle. Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 102(3), 207-227 (2002).
9. Ferrari, A., Pelliccioni, M. and Rancati, T. Calculation of the radiation environment caused by galactic cosmic rays for determining air crew exposure. Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 93(2), 101-114 (2001).
10. Roesler, S., Heinrich, W. and Schraube H. Monte Carlo calculation of the radiation field at aircraft altitudes. Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 98(4), 367-388 (2002).
11. Goldhagen, P. Overview of aircraft radiation exposure and recent ER-2 Measurements. Health Phys. 79, 526-544 (2000).
12. Schrewe U. J. Global measurement of the radiation exposure of civil air crew from 1997 to 1999. Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 91, 347-364 (2000).
13. Wilson, O. J., Young, B. F. and Richardson, C. K. Cosmic radiation doses received by australian commercial flight crews and the implications of ICRP 60. Health Phys. 66(5), 493-502 (1994).
14. Singleterry, R. C., Jr., Shinn, J. L., Wilson, J. W., Maiden, D. L., Thibeault, S. A., Badavi, F. F., Conroy, T. and Braby, L. Aircraft radiation shield experiments - preflight laboratory testing, NASA/ TM-1999-209131 (1999).
15. Ferrari, A., Pelliccioni M. and Villari, R. Evaluation of the influence of aircraft shielding on the aircrew exposure through an aircraft mathematical model, Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 108, 91-105 (2004).
16. Fassò, A., Ferrari, A. and Sala, P. R. Electron-photon transport in FLUKA: Status. In: Proceedings of the MonteCarlo2000 Conference, Lisbon, October 23-26 2000. Kling, A., Barao, F., Nakagawa, M., Tavora, L. and Vaz, P., Eds. (Berlin: Springer-Verlag) pp. 159-164 (2001).
17. Fassò, A., Ferrari, A., Ranft, J. and Sala, P. R. FLUKA: Status and prospective for hadronic applications. In: Proceedings of the MonteCarlo 2000 Conference, Lisbon, October 23-26 2000. Kling, A., Barao, F., Nakagawa, M., Tavora, L. and Vaz, P., Eds. (Berlin: Springer-Verlag) pp. 955-960 (2001).
18. International Commission on Radiological Protection. Conversion coefficients for use in radiological protection against external radiation. ICRP Publication 74, Ann. ICRP, 26(3/4) (1996).
19. Pelliccioni, M. Overview of fluence-to-effective dose and fluence-to-ambient dose equivalent conversion coefficients for high-energy radiation calculated using the FLUKA code. Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 88(4), 279-298 (2000).
20. R), and quality factor (Q). ICRP Publication 92, Ann. ICRP, 33(4) (Oxford: Pergamon Press) (2003).