title: A collaborative exercise on cytogenetic dosimetry for simulated whole and partial body accidental irradiation.
abstract: An experiment sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency was undertaken to compare dose estimation by cytogenetic analysis on aliquots of samples of irradiated blood sent by air to participating laboratories. Accidental acute whole-body irradiations to 0.7 and 2.34 Gy and half-body irradiations to 3.5 Gy were simulated with X- and gamma-rays. For the partial irradiations the size of the irradiated fraction and its dose were estimated by the Qdr and contaminated Poisson techniques. Each laboratory's in vitro dose-response data were fitted to the quadratic model by the iteratively reweighted least squares method. Interlaboratory variations in dose-response curves, and in the aberration yields and dose estimates for the simulated accidents were noted. However, in general, most participants consistently obtained results acceptably close to the true values.
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Lloyd
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Prosser
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Barjaktarovic
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Horvat
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Ismail
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Köteles
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Almassy
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Krepinsky
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents; D001773:Blood Cells / Q000528:radiation effects; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D005720:Gamma Rays; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D014916:Whole-Body Irradiation; D014965:X-Rays