التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
PROBABILISTIC ANALYSES OF 131I THYROID ACTIVITY IN PERSONS WITH SURFACE CONTAMINATION IN DIRECT MEASUREMENT WITH A STANDING-TYPE WHOLE-BODY COUNTER AS AN EMERGENCY RESPONSE IN A RADIOLOGICAL INCIDENT. |
| المؤلفون: |
Tani, Kotaro, Igarashi, Yu, Kim, Eunjoo, Kowatari, Munehiko, Iimoto, Takeshi, Kurihara, Osamu |
| المصدر: |
Radiation Protection Dosimetry; May2021, Vol. 194 Issue 2/3, p65-75, 11p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
SURFACE contamination, DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory), RADIATION exposure, NUCLEAR power plants, WORK clothes, THYROID gland |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
CANBERRA (A.C.T.) |
| الشركة/الكيان: |
FUKUSHIMA Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (Japan) |
| مستخلص: |
The authors' previous study suggested that a simple standing-type whole-body counter called FASTSCAN (Canberra, Meriden, CT, USA), widely installed throughout Japan after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident in March 2011, could be used for thyroid measurements in internal dose assessment after a future radiological incident accompanied by the release of 131I into the environment. The present study performed Monte-Carlo simulations using a computational human phantom with several patterns of body surface contamination and used the results to formulate a method for probabilistic analyses of 131I thyroid activity in persons with surface contamination. The major advantage of this method is that the upper limit of the thyroid activity can be determined from the relative frequency distribution without identifying where body surface contamination remains. Therefore, this method is especially effective for use in the early phase of a radiological incident when time and resources are limited, making it difficult to physically remove all body surface contamination for the purpose of gaining more accurate population-wide thyroid screening measurements. As a case study of the FDNPP accident, the proposed method was applied to the results of in vivo measurements for a male subject with body surface contamination. In comparing the probabilistic analyses before and after removal of the subject's contaminated work clothes, the uncertainty of the relative frequency distribution of 131I thyroid activity was reduced by their removal. Therefore, in terms of accurate estimates and avoidance of radiation exposure from their contaminated clothes, efforts to remove body surface contamination still should be made as much as possible in the chaotic situation of the early phase of a radiological incident. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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