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Equivalent dose rate by muons to the human body.

Institute for Space Sciences, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania.
Radiation Protection Dosimetry (impact factor: 0.82). 12/2010; 147(3):380-5. DOI:10.1093/rpd/ncq460 pp.380-5
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ABSTRACT In this paper, the relative sensitivity from different human tissues of the human body, at a ground level, from muon cosmic radiation has been studied. The aim of this paper was to provide information on the equivalent dose rates received from atmospheric muons to human body, at the ground level. The calculated value of the effective dose rate by atmospheric muons plus the radiation levels of the natural annual background radiation dose, at the ground level, in the momentum interval of cosmic ray muon (0.2-120.0 GeV/c) is about 2.106±0.001 mSv/y, which is insignificant in comparison with the values of the doses from the top of the atmosphere.

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Keywords

atmospheric muons
 
calculated value
 
cosmic ray muon
 
different human tissues
 
effective dose rate
 
equivalent dose rates
 
ground level
 
human body
 
muon cosmic radiation
 
natural annual background radiation dose
 
radiation levels
 
relative sensitivity
 
values
 

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