1. Assessing 131I in thyroid by non-spectroscopic instruments - A European intercomparison exercise
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Juan Francisco Navarro Amaro, Mats Isaksson, Marie Carlsson, Peter Hill, Mats Stenström, David Broggio, Carlo Maria Castellani, Jakub Ośko, Grażyna Krajewska, Isabelle Vu, Jimmy Börjesson, Paolo Battisti, Begoña Pérez López, Magnus Gårdestig, Sokratis el Mantani Ordoulidis, P. Fojtík, A. L. Lebacq, Günter Lünendonk, Oliver Meisenberg, Isaksson, M., Broggio, D., Fojtik, P., Lebacq, A. L., Navarro Amaro, J. F., Osko, J., Perez Lopez, B., Vu, I., Battisti, P., Borjesson, J., Carlsson, M., Castellani, C. M., Gardestig, M., Hill, P., Krajewska, G., Lunendonk, G., Meisenberg, O., Stenstrom, M., El Mantani Ordoulidis, S., Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas [Madrid] (CIEMAT), Italian National agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic development [Frascati] (ENEA), Linköping University (LIU), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH | Centre de recherche de Juliers, and Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft = Helmholtz Association
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Thyroid ,010302 applied physics ,Measurement ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Radiation ,business.industry ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Measurements ,01 natural sciences ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Intercomparison ,Iodine-131 ,Non-spectrometric ,0103 physical sciences ,Dose estimation ,Medicine ,Medical physics ,Human thyroid ,business ,Instrumentation - Abstract
International audience; One of the issues of the Open Project for the European Radiation Research Area (OPERRA) was human thyroid monitoring in case of a large scale nuclear accident. This issue was covered in task 5.4 as project “CaThyMARA” (Child and Adult Thyroid Monitoring After Reactor Accident), which included several aspects of thyroid monitoring, e.g. screening of facilities able to perform thyroid monitoring in the European countries, dose estimation, modelling of detector response, and two intercomparison exercises. The intercomparison described in this paper focused on thyroid monitoring by non-spectrometric instruments, including gamma cameras and other instruments that were considered available for measurements made by members of the public. A total of 12 facilities from 7 European countries have participated and 43 various measuring devices have been evaluated. The main conclusion of this intercomparison is that the ability to make assessments of 131I activity in the thyroid to the exposed population after an accidental release must, on the average, be considered as good among the European laboratories taking part in this study. This intercomparison also gave the participants the possibility to calibrate the measuring devices for thyroid measurements of children where this procedure was not available before. A comprehensive report of the intercomparison is given. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
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