Relations between tooth enamel dose and organ doses for the Electron Spin Resonance dosimetry against external photon exposure

Takahashi, Fumiaki; Yamaguchi, Yasuhiro; Iwasaki, Midori*; Miyazawa, Chuzo*; Hamada, Tatsuji*

Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 95(2), p.101 - 108, 2001/09

https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006529

An analysis of doses to tooth enamel and to organs was carried out to develop a method that can predict the organ doses and the effective dose by the Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) dosimetry using tooth samples for external photon exposure. Absorbed dose to tooth enamel and organ doses were obtained by Monte Carlo calculations using EGS4 code in combination with a mathematical human model with a newly defined teeth-part. The calculations gave quantitative relations between tooth enamel dose and organ doses for some cases of external photon exposure. It was also found that tooth enamel dose depends more significantly on energy of incident photons than the other organ dose or the effective dose. The obtained data are to be useful for the assessment of individual dose in past exposure events by the ESR dosimetry with tooth enamel.