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Current developments at IRSN on computational tools dedicated to assessing doses for both internal and external exposure.

I Aubineau-Lanièce·L de Carlan·I Clairand·A Lemosquet·S Chiavassa·N Pierrat·M Bardiès·D Franck
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The paper presents the OEDIPE (French acronym that stands for tool for personalised internal dose assessment) and SESAME (for simulation of external source accident with medical images) computational tools, dedicated to internal and external dose assessment, respectively, and currently being developed at the Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety. The originality of OEDIPE and SESAME, by using voxel phantoms in association with Monte Carlo codes, lies in their ability to construct personalised voxel phantoms from medical images and automatically generate the Monte Carlo input file and visualise the expected results. OEDIPE simulates in vivo measurements to improve their calibration, and calculates the dose distribution taking both internal contamination and internal radiotherapy cases into account. SESAME enables radiological overexposure doses to be reconstructed, as also victim, source and accident environment modelling. The paper presents the principles on which these tools function and an overview of specificities and results linked to their fields of application.

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I Aubineau-Lanièce, L de Carlan, I Clairand, A Lemosquet, S Chiavassa, N Pierrat, M Bardiès, D Franck. 2005. Current developments at IRSN on computational tools dedicated to assessing doses for both internal and external exposure.. https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd%2Fnci176

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