Recent ICRU activities
Thomas Otto, ICRU and CERN
BIPM – 25th Meeting of the Consultative Committee for Units
ICRU Report 92 (2019)
Radiation Monitoring for Protection of the Public after Major
Releases of Radionuclides to the Environment
• Major Radioactive
Releases to the
environment
• Monitoring Programs
• Monitoring Systems and
Methods
• Quantities used in
Radiation Protection
• Appendices - Examples
• Extensive list of
references and
bibliography
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ICRU 92 – Monitoring Systems and Methods
• Overview of dosimeters,
monitors and systems for
• Early warning
• Area monitoring
• External radiation
• Airborne radiation
• Ground Contamination
• Personal monitoring
• External radiation
• External contamination
• Internal contamination
• with extensive
references to original
literature
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ICRU Report 93
Prescribing, Recording and Reporting Light Ion Therapy
• Radiation biology
• Beam delivery
• Dosimetry
• Volumes in ion therapy
• Treatment planning
• Management of patient
and organ motion
• Estimation of uncertainty
• Quality assurance
• Prescribing, recording and
reporting treatment
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ICRU 93 – Facilities and Treatment plans
• Comprehensive report
on this cancer treatment
modality
• Guideline for new
centers
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ICRU Report 94 (2019)
Methods for Initial-Phase Assessment of Individual Doses
following Acute Exposure to ionizing Radiation
• Quantities
• Biodosimetry
• Physical Dosimetry
• Neutron Activation,
Bioassay
• Radiation Field Mapping
• Applications
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ICRU 94 – Bio- and Fortuitous Dosimeters
• EPR: Principle similar to NMR
(RF resonance in B-field)
• Body Dosimeters: bone, teeth, nails
• Fortuitous Dosimeters: sugar, glass,
cotton, plastic
• few Gy – 100s of Gy
• Luminescence: Principle similar to
TLD or OSL: light emission after
stimulation
• Fortuitous Dosimeters:
Chip cards, Integrated Circuits, LCD
display, Touchscreen, …
• 10s of mGy to 10s of Gy
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ICRU Report 95 (2020)
Operational Quantities for External Radiation Exposure
• Previous quantities
(ICRU 39 and 51)
• Operational Quantities
for external exposure
• Conversion Coefficients
• Practical Consequences
• Appendices
• Values of Conversion
coefficients
• Computer Codes
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ICRU 95 – New Operational Quantities
• Definition of operational
quantities with help of the
same numerical phantoms
as for protection quantities
• H* - Ambient dose
• Hp – Personal dose
• Leads to simplification of
the system and better
coherence
• Also new definition of
operational quantities for
eye lens, skin and
extremities
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ICRU 95 – Conversion Coefficients
Photons • By definition, conversion
coefficients to the new
quantities fit the energy-
dependence of the
Conversion coefficient from Fluence protection quantities
• Conversion coefficients
for many radiation types
Neutrons
and extended energy
range
• H* up to 10 GeV
Conversion coefficient from Fluence
• Hp up to 1 GeV
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Thank you for your Attention
