Evaluation of organ doses by using adult Japanese phantoms with various body sizes

Sato, Kaoru   ; Takahashi, Fumiaki  

Organ doses, which are basis of dose assessment in radiation protection, are derived from ICRP reference phantoms (Male: RCP-AM, Female: RCP-AF) with body physiques of standard Caucasian. In adult, Japanese body physiques are smaller than those of Caucasian. To study impact of application of organ doses of RCP-AM and RCP-AF to dose assessment of adult Japanese, we constructed Japanese male (JM-103) and female (JF-103) phantoms with body physiques of average adult Japanese. In addition, body physiques of adult Japanese have also wide distribution. Therefore, we newly constructed DJM (Male) and DJF (Female) with 8 body physiques by changing bust, chest, waist and hip of JM-103 and JF-103. Organ doses due to external photon irradiation of DJM and DJF were calculated, and were compared with those of RCP-AM and RCP-AF. In ISO geometry at 0.3 MeV and ROT geometry at 0.6 MeV, it was found that colon doses of DJM and DJF with body physiques, which are applicable to most adult Japanese, agreed with those of RCP-AM and RCP-AF within 10 %.