TEPC measurements in commercial aircraft
| Autor: | D. Powell, N. A. Horwood, J. B. L. Jones, R. D. Bentley, R. H. A. Iles, R. Hunter, David J. Thomas, G. C. Taylor |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Aircraft Meteorology Radiation Dosage Risk Assessment Sensitivity and Specificity United States Virgin Islands Radiation Protection Risk Factors Occupational Exposure Physical laboratory Humans Dosimetry Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiometry Neutrons Radioisotopes Radiation Radiological and Ultrasound Technology Equivalent dose Commerce Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Reproducibility of Results Civil aviation Environmental Exposure Equipment Design General Medicine Time data United Kingdom Body Burden Environmental science Algorithms Cosmic Radiation Relative Biological Effectiveness New Zealand |
| Zdroj: | Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 110:381-386 |
| ISSN: | 1742-3406 0144-8420 |
| Popis: | The collaborative project involving the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL), Virgin Atlantic Airways (VAA), the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has been performing tissue-equivalent proportional counter measurements of cosmic ray doses in commercial aircraft since January 2000. In that time data have been recorded on over 700 flights, including over 150 flights with Air New Zealand (ANZ). This substantial set of data from the southern hemisphere is an ideal complement to the London-based measurements performed primarily on VAA flights. Although some ANZ data remains to be analysed, dose information from 111 flights has been compared with the CARI and EPCARD computer codes. Overall, the agreement between the measurements and EPCARD was excellent (within 1% for the total ambient dose equivalent), and the difference in the total effective doses predicted by EPCARD and CARI was |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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