Dose estimation for astronauts using dose conversion coefficients calculated with the PHITS code and the ICRP/ICRU adult reference computational phantoms

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 115-123

  Sato, Tatsuhiko ^a   Endo, Akira ^a   Sihver, Lembit ^b,c   Niita, Koji ^d  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c ROANOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

^d RESEARCH ORGANIZATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL PHANTOM; COSMIC RAY FLUX; DOSE CONVERSION; DOSE ESTIMATIONS; EFFECTIVE DOSE; EFFECTIVE DOSE EQUIVALENTS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FEMALE ADULTS; FLUENCES; PARTICLE AND HEAVY ION TRANSPORT CODE SYSTEMS; RADIATION QUALITY FACTOR; RADIATION WEIGHTING FACTORS; SPACE DOSIMETRY;

COSMIC RAYS; SPACECRAFT;

MANNED SPACE FLIGHT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMONAUT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MALE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION;

ADULT; ASTRONAUTS; COSMIC RADIATION; FEMALE; GALAXIES; HUMANS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION;

EID: 79952448914     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-010-0330-0     Document Type: Article

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