Under the Egyptian program for radiation safety and control, airborne radioactivity measurements and radiological dose assessment were conducted in some phosphate and uranium mines. Abu-Tartor mine is one of the biggest underground phosphate mines in Egypt. Airborne radioactivity, radon ((222)Rn) and its short-lived decay products (progenies) and thoron ((220)Rn), were measured in selected loca...

INTRODUCTION The thermoluminescent (TL) properties of various materials have been studied since a long time but many of these developments never reach the thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD) users. α-Al2O3:C TL detectors were first developed and produced at Urals Polytechnical Institute ( UPI ) (1) in the form of a single crystal. These TLD ( model 2600 – 80 ) are now supplied by Victoreen to man...

PURPOSE To design a Head and Neck (H&N) anthropomorphic QA phantom that the Imaging and Radiation Oncology Core Houston (IROC-H) can use to verify the quality of intensity modulated proton therapy (IMPT) H&N treatments for institutions participating in NCI clinical trials. METHODS The phantom was created to serve as a remote auditing tool for IROC-H to evaluate an institution's IMPT planning ...

Possible strategies to reduce radiation dose during CT scanning have been investigated over recent decades; here the optimization of tube current and its link with patient’s cancer incidence are being evaluated. 154 consecutive trauma patients need for chest scan were included. Two different BMI-adjusted protocols at a fixed voltage same length applied. Dose estimation parameters like index (CT...

INTRODUCTION In India, official and centralized personnel monitoring service using film badge was started in 1952 by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay (1). With the indigenous development of a TLD badge system (2) based on CaSO4:Dy Teflon disc dosimeter (3) exhibiting evident superiorities over film badge, replacement of film based individual dosimeter by TLD was initiated in 1975. At prese...

High dose rate brachytherapy has attained the good local control for cervix cancer because radioactive source can be put close to tumors, resulting in increasing the dose delivery per one fraction. However, quality assurance must be accompanied to reduce severe complication. We verified the dose distribution around the source by comparing measured dose with calculated dose by Radiation Therapy ...

This study intended to optimize the radiation doses for gastroenterologists and patients during therapeutic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and to compare the doses based on available data obtained by other researchers. A total of 153 patients were studied in two Gastroenterology Departments, (group A, 111; group B, 42). Thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLD) were used to meas...

The paper presents a high sensitivity TLD system, designed for the survey of the environmental radioactivity. It is based on the use of TL detectors type LiF:Mg, Cu, P, commercially known as GR-200A. The dosimeter designed in our Institute, contains 3 detectors, and the measurement value is calculated as the arithmetic mean. A very sensitive, TL Reader, READER ANALYSER RA’94 was chosen and an o...