title: EDEL: ENEA DOSEMETER FOR EYE LENS.
abstract: Since the publication of International Commission on Radiological Protection statement in 2011 on tissue reaction, eye lens radiation protection played an important role in exposed personnel dosimetry. For this reason, the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) Individual Monitoring Service decided to study a prototype to fulfil specific requests (e.g. for survey in interventional department and intercomparisons). On the basis of such preliminary investigation, a new eye lens dosemeter was developed. The new dosemeter, named EDEL (ENEA Dosemeter for Eye Lens), was characterised in terms of Hp(3), the operational quantity related to eye lens monitoring. The investigation was performed experimentally and optimised using the Monte Carlo MCNP6 code. The new prototype was thought to fulfil two main requests: the reliability of the dosimetric data and the portability of the dosemeter itself. The new dosemeter will soon be supplied to the collaborating hospitals for workplace test measurements.
authors.affiliation: ENEA-Radiation Protection Institute, 4, Via Martiri di Monte Sole, 40129 Bologna, Italy paolo.ferrari@enea.it.
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ferrari
authors.affiliation: ENEA-Radiation Protection Institute, 4, Via Martiri di Monte Sole, 40129 Bologna, Italy.
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mariotti
authors.affiliation: ENEA-Radiation Protection Institute, 4, Via Martiri di Monte Sole, 40129 Bologna, Italy.
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Campani
mesh_terms: D002138:Calibration; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000528:radiation effects*; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000032:analysis* / Q000517:prevention & control; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D000072232:Radiation Dosimeters; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012984:Software; D013819:Thermoluminescent Dosimetry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods