title: AIDE: internal dosimetry software.
abstract: AIDE (Activity and Internal Dose Estimates) is a software for calculating activities in compartments and committed doses due to occupational exposures, and for performing intake and dose estimates using bioassay data. It has been continuously developed and tested for more than 20 years. Its calculation core has been applied in several situations, like performing all dose estimates due to (137)Cs intakes, which occurred during the Goiania accident in 1987; performing quality assurance of the ICRP Task Group on Dose Calculations regarding calculations of activities in compartments and generation of dose coefficients for adults due to intakes by inhalation, ingestion and injection of several radionuclides; and producing the tables of activities in compartments and dose coefficients using the NCRP Wound Model for the NCRP report. It provides several capabilities like performing calculations using modified Human Respiratory Tract Model parameters for the mechanical transport, blood absorption and partitions of deposit in the AI region. The existing systemic models can also be modified or new ones can be entered. All estimate procedures are in accordance with the methods presented in the ICRP-78 Publication, in the IAEA Safety Reports Series no. 37 and in the IDEAS Project Guidelines 2006.
authors.affiliation: Santa Fe, NM, USA. contact@aidesoftware.com
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bertelli
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Melo
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lipsztein
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cruz-Suarez
mesh_terms: D001681:Biological Assay / Q000379:methods; D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis; D007700:Kinetics; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011786:Quality Control; D018788:Radioactive Hazard Release; D011868:Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis; D011874:Radiometry / Q000379:methods*; D012137:Respiratory System / Q000528:radiation effects; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes; D011868:Radioisotopes