Operational health and physics service during the maintenance of the Australian National Medical Cyclotron
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1994-05-01
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The Institution of Engineers Australia
Abstract
Modern Medical Cyclotrons use intense beams of high energy protons or deuterons to produce large activities of short and medium lived radionuclides. After continuous operation for prolonged periods the Cyclotron components become activated through various nuclear interactions therefore, the risk of personal radiation hazard while handling such activated cyclotron components is high. This paper describes all operational aspects of the Health Physics service evolved during the first preventative maintenance program of the Australian National Medical Cyclotron, which took place in June 1993.
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Physical copy held by ANSTO Library at DDC 621.48/91.
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Australia, Cyclotrons, Hospitals, Occupational exposure, Radiation monitoring, Radiation protection
Citation
Mukherjee, B. (1994). Operational health and physics service during the maintenance of the Australian National Medical Cyclotron. Paper presented to the 9th Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference : Nuclear energy, science and technology Pacific partnership, Sydney, Australia, May 1-6 1994. In McDonald, N. R. (ed), Proceedings, 9th Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference: Nuclear energy, science & technology Pacific partnership, (pp. 645-649). Australia: The Institution of Engineers Australia.