title: Fluence to effective dose conversion coefficients calculated for monoenergetic electrons up to 200 MeV in partial exposure geometries.
abstract: Organ doses and effective doses were calculated for monoenergetic electrons from 0.1 to 200 MeV using the EGS4 Monte Carlo simulation code and the MIRD-5 human phantom in various non-uniform exposure geometries: anterior-posterior (AP) and posterior-anterior (PA). Below 1 MeV, the skin is the main contributor to the effective dose conversion coefficients for each exposure geometry; however, above 1 MeV the calculations showed that the effective doses of partial exposures depended on the incident electron energy, the place and the size of the exposure on the body.
authors.affiliation: Department of Atomic Science and Nuclear Engineering, Hokkaido University, North 13, West 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8628, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kitaichi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Katagiri
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hikoji
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Iwai
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sumiyoshi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sawamura
mesh_terms: D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D004583:Electrons; D004601:Elementary Particles; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D017785:Photons; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011834:Radiation Monitoring; D011835:Radiation Protection; D011874:Radiometry / Q000379:methods*; D012306:Risk; D012984:Software