Individual monitoring of radiation workers is essential to ensure compliance with legal dose limits and to ensure that doses are As Low As Reasonably Achievable. However, large uncertainties still exist in personal dosimetry and there are issues with compliance and incorrect wearing of dosimeters. The objective of the PODIUM (Personal Online Dosime...
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Environmental impact assessments conducted for Australian mine sites involving naturally occurring radioactive material require an assessment of radiation doses to wildlife. Whole-organism concentration ratios (CRwo) are pivotal in these assessments and previous reviews have identified a need for a more complete and consolidated database of Austral...
In this part of work carried out by Working Group 9 (Radiation Protection Dosimetry in Medicine) of the European Radiation Dosimetry Group (EURADOS), water tank experiments described in this issue (Bordy et al., 2013) were extended to a BOMAB-like phantom. This phantom is more clinically realistic than a water tank, sufficiently to allow the simula...
Published in Dento maxillo facial radiology
The aim of this study was to assess general dental practitioners' knowledge of dental radiography and radiation protection in order to alert the Belgian authorities and dental professional societies. Prior to attending a postgraduate course on intraoral radiology, general dental practitioners in Flanders, Belgium, were asked to fill in a questionna...
The Central Safety Department is responsible for licensing procedures and for supervising, monitoring and executing measures of industrial health and safety, radiation protection and security service at and for the institutes and departments of the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH (Karlsruhe Research Centre), and for monitoring liquid effluents and...
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