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Development of detailed pediatric eye models for lens dose calculations
Ist Teil von
Journal of radiological protection, 2021-06, Vol.41 (2), p.305-325
Ort / Verlag
England: IOP Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
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Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) recently reduced the dose limit for the eye lens for occupational exposure from 150 mSv per year to 20 mSv per year, as averaged over defined periods of 5 years, with no annual dose in a single year exceeding 50 mSv, emphasizing the importance of the accurate estimation of lens dose. In the present study, for more accurate lens dosimetry, detailed eye models were developed for children and adolescents (newborns and 1-, 5-, 10-, and 15-year-olds), which were then incorporated into the pediatric mesh-type reference computational phantoms (MRCPs) and used to calculate lens dose coefficients (DCs) for photon and electron exposures. Finally, the calculated values were compared with those calculated with the adult MRCPs in order to determine the age dependence of the lens DCs. For photon exposures, the lens DCs of the pediatric MRCPs showed some sizable differences from those of the adult MRCPs at very low energies (10 and 15 keV), but the differences were all less than 35%, except for the posterior-anterior irradiation geometry, for which the lens dose is not of primary concern. For electron exposures, much larger differences were found. For the anterior-posterior and isotropic irradiation geometries, the largest differences between the lens DCs of the pediatric and adult phantoms were found in the energy range of 0.6-1 MeV, where the newborn lens DCs were larger by up to a factor of ~5 than the adult. The lens DCs of the present study, which were calculated for the radiosensitive region of the lens, also were compared with those for the entire lens in the anterior-posterior irradiation geometry. Our results showed that the DCs of the entire lens were similar to those of the radiosensitive region for 0.02-2 MeV photons and >2 MeV electrons, but that for the other energy ranges, significant differences were noticeable, i.e., 10-40% for photons and up to a factor of ~5 for electrons.