Kim Chan-Hyeong, Cho Sang Hyun, Xu X George
Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University, 17 Haengdang-dong, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 133-791, Korea.
Radiat Prot Dosimetry. 2006;118(3):243-50. doi: 10.1093/rpd/nci352. Epub 2005 Oct 13.
To determine effective dose, we usually need to use a very complicated human body model and a sophisticated computer code to transport radiations in the body model and surrounding medium, which is not very easy to practicing health physicists in the field. This study develops and tests a software package, called PRDC (Personnel Radiation Dose Calculation), which calculates effective dose and radiation doses to various organs/tissues and personal dosemeters based on a series of interpolations.