title: Results of dosimetric measurements in space missions.
abstract: Detector packages consisting of plastic nuclear track detectors, nuclear emulsions, and theromoluminescence detectors were exposed at different locations inside the space laboratory Spacelab and at the astronauts' body and in different sections of the MIR space station. Total dose, particle fluence rate and linear energy transfer (LET) spectra of heavy ions, number of nuclear disintegrations and fast neutron fluence rates were determined of each exposure. The dose equivalent received by the Payload specialists (PSs) were calculated from the measurements, they range from 190 microSv d-1 to 770 microSv d-1. Finally, a preliminary investigation of results from a particle telescope of two silicon detectors, first used in the last BIORACK mission on STS 76, is reported.
authors.affiliation: DLR, Institut fur Luft- und Raumfahrtmedizin, Abteilung Strahlenbiologie, Koln, Germany.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Reitz
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Beaujean
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Heilmann
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kopp
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Leicher
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Strauch
mesh_terms: D003359:Cosmic Radiation; D005118:Extraterrestrial Environment; D020450:Heavy Ions; D018499:Linear Energy Transfer; D009502:Neutrons; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011835:Radiation Protection; D011874:Radiometry / Q000295:instrumentation; D019445:Solar Activity; D013026:Space Flight / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013819:Thermoluminescent Dosimetry; D014893:Weightlessness