title: Personal dose analysis of TLD glow curve data from individual monitoring records.
abstract: Radiation exposure of workers in Ghana have been estimated on the basis of personal dose records of the occupationally exposed in medical, industrial and research/teaching practices for the period 2008-09. The estimated effective doses for 2008 are 0.400, 0.495 and 0.426 mSv for medical, industrial and research/teaching practices, respectively. The corresponding collective effective doses are 0.128, 0.044 and 0.017 person-Sv, respectively. Similarly, the effective doses recorded in 2009 are 0.448, 0.545 and 0.388 mSv, respectively with corresponding collective effective doses of 0.108, 0.032 and 0.012 person-Sv, respectively. The study shows that occupational exposure in Ghana is skewed to the lower doses (between 0.001 and 0.500 mSv). A statistical analysis of the effective doses showed no significant difference at p < 0.05 among the means of the effective doses recorded in various practices.
authors.affiliation: Radiation Protection Institute, Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, PO Box LG 80, Legon-Accra, Ghana. nanadjeidan@yahoo.co.uk
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Adjei
authors.forename: E O
authors.initials: EO
authors.lastname: Darko
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schandorf
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Owusu-Manteaw
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Akrobortu
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001822:Body Burden; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005869:Ghana; D006801:Humans; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000032:analysis* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013819:Thermoluminescent Dosimetry / Q000379:methods*; D014915:Whole-Body Counting / Q000379:methods*