title: Car-borne survey of natural background gamma dose rate in Çanakkale region, Turkey.
abstract: Natural background gamma radiation was measured along roads in the environs of Çanakkale region by using a car-borne spectrometer system with a plastic gamma radiation detector. In addition, activity concentrations of ²³⁸U, ²²⁶Ra, ²³²Th and ⁴⁰K in soil samples from the Çanakkale region were determined by using a gamma spectrometer with an HPGe detector. A total of 92,856 data of the background gamma dose rate were collected for the Çanakkale region. The background gamma dose rate of the Çanakkale region was mapped using ArcGIS software, applying the geostatistical inverse distance-weighted method. The average and population-weighted average of the gamma dose are 55.4 and 40.6 nGy h⁻¹, respectively. The corresponding average annual effective dose to the public ranged from 26.6 to 96.8 µSv.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Letters, University of Nevsehir, 50300 Nevsehir, Turkey. serefturhan63@gmail.com
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Turhan
authors.forename: I H
authors.initials: IH
authors.lastname: Arıkan
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Oğuz
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Özdemir
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yücel
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Varinlioğlu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Köse
mesh_terms: D001336:Automobiles; D001417:Background Radiation; D001822:Body Burden; D003625:Data Collection; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000032:analysis*; D005720:Gamma Rays; D006801:Humans; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D014421:Turkey