Computing Radiation Dosimetry: Crd 2002 (Nuclear Science)

Establishing reliable computational methods and tools for radiation dosimetry is of great importance today because of the increased use of radiation in a number of areas of science, technology and medical applications. Fields concerned include radiation protection, radiation shielding, radiation diagnostics and therapy, radiobiology, biophysics and radiation detection. A series of lectures delivered by experts provides the content of these workshop proceedings. Preliminaries......Page 1 Foreword......Page 4 CONTENTS......Page 6 Executive Summary......Page 8 OPENING SESSION......Page 12 Dosimetry and Related R D Activities EURADOS Contribution......Page 14 Dosimetric Fundamentals......Page 24 Physics of Electron and Photon Transport for Dosimetry Calculations......Page 38 Monte Carlo Studies in the Field of Area Monitoring and Personal Dosimetry for Photons Between 10 keV and 10 MeV and Neutrons Below 20 MeV......Page 58 Monte Carlo Calculation of Conversion Coefficients for High energy Radiation......Page 84 Monte Carlo Approaches to Important Problems in Radiotherapy Dosimetry......Page 100 From Ion Tracks to Ion Radiotherapy......Page 116 Monte Carlo Studies in the Field of Internal Dosimetry of Incorporated Radionuclides......Page 126 PENELOPE Specific Features and Applications......Page 148 Track Structure Simulation: A Basic Tool for Molecular Radiation Biology and Nanodosimetry......Page 162 Intermediate and High energy Nuclear Reactions in Dosimetry Calculations......Page 180 Modelling Charged particle Energy loss Straggling......Page 208 Neutron and Gamma-ray Dosimetry of the Tokai-mura and Sarov Criticality Accidents Using a Deterministic Transport Methodology......Page 218 Using MCNPX for Space Applications......Page 236 List of Participants......Page 248 List of Organisers Sponsors Teachers......Page 254