ATTEMPT TO RE-ESTIMATE ORGAN DOSES OF VICTIMS IN NON-HOMOGENEOUS EXPOSURE ACCIDENT BY MEANS OF THE STATE-OF-THE-ART MESH-TYPE REFERENCE COMPUTATIONAL PHANTOM - A CASE STUDY OF AN IR-192 SOURCE ACCIDENT -

Abstract

An attempt was made to estimate organ doses of a victim in a high-dose non-homogeneous exposure accident caused by a sealed 192Ir gamma ray source. The Gilan accident was selected as a case study. Organ doses including testis, red bone marrow and so on were properly estimated by applying the Monte Carlo calculation with the state-of-the-art adult male Mesh type Reference Computational Phantom. By introducing a complicated exposure scenario, the dose distribution on the right chest of the victim in the Gilan accident could be reproduced to a certain extent.journal articl