Abstract and subjects
There is a set of quantities obtained from ICRP 74 (ex., effective dose, personal dose equivalent) used at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in assessing radiation generating facilities. An assessment typically is done either by measurements of a radiation field or calculations using radiation transport codes. Both measured and calculated values are related to basic physical quantities like particle fluence and absorbed dose. Radiological quantities that cannot be measured directly can be derived from physical measurements. The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) using radiation transport codes, appropriate mathematical models of a human body and different irradiation geometries, developed a set of dose conversion factors (DCFs) from measurable physical quantities. In this paper a review and comparison are made with the new DCFs proposed by ICRP in Publication 116 to those listed in Publications 74 which are currently used by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. (authors)