title: Equivalent dose rate by muons to the human body.
abstract: In this paper, the relative sensitivity from different human tissues of the human body, at a ground level, from muon cosmic radiation has been studied. The aim of this paper was to provide information on the equivalent dose rates received from atmospheric muons to human body, at the ground level. The calculated value of the effective dose rate by atmospheric muons plus the radiation levels of the natural annual background radiation dose, at the ground level, in the momentum interval of cosmic ray muon (0.2-120.0 GeV/c) is about 2.106±0.001 mSv/y, which is insignificant in comparison with the values of the doses from the top of the atmosphere.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Space Sciences, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania. baicioiu@spacescience.ro
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Băcioiu
mesh_terms: D001272:Atmosphere; D001417:Background Radiation; D003359:Cosmic Radiation; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D018594:Human Body; D006801:Humans; D008651:Mesons; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity