RadCon’s Mauritius Hiller has published a new paper in the journal Radiation and Environmental Biophysics. Co-authored by Ken G. Veinot and Nolan E. Hertel, it looks at the ‘Infuence of neutron cross‐section resonances on organ/tissue equivalent and effective dose coefficients for the ICRP voxel phantoms’.

The materials which compose the ICRP Voxel phantoms used in the computation of conversion coefficients involve neutron interaction cross-sections that have resonances at specific energies. Depending on the energy bin structure used in the computations, these cross-section resonances may occur at energies that fall between energies at which dose coefficients are computed, thus their effects may not be completely accounted for in the reported coefficients. In the present study, a highly refined energy grid that closely follows the resonance structure in the phantom material cross-sections was identified and used to calculate dose coefficients.

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