Radiation Dosimetry
Reconstruction dosimetry describes the use of film-badges, environmental readings and military service records to estimate the dose received by an individual based on knowledge of the circumstances in which exposure took place.
It is helpful for understanding these lay summaries to first read the Basic Information on Ionising Radiation and Dosimetry.
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This lay summary describes how service records have been used (historical reconstruction) to improve the film badge dose estimates of American military veterans. Click here to read lay summary.
Full article: Beck, H.L., Till, J.E., Grogan, H.A., Aanenson, J.W., Mohler, J.H., Mohler, S.S. and Voilleque, P.G. (2017) Red Bone Marrow and Male Breast Doses for a Cohort of Atomic Veterans, Radiation Research, 187, pp. 221-228.
This lay summary describes how service records have been used (historical reconstruction) to improve the film badge dose estimates of American military veterans who took part in Operation Plumbbob including the Smoky nuclear test. Click here to read the lay summary.
Full article: Caldwell, G.G., Zack, M.M., Mumma, M.T., Falk, H., Heath, C.W., Till, J.E., Chen, H. and Boice, J.D. (2016) Mortality Among Military Participants at the 1957 Plumbbob Nuclear Weapons Test Series and from Leukaemia Among Participants at the Smoky Test, Journal of Radiological Protection, 36, pp. 474-489.
This lay summary describes how abnormal chromosomes and service records (historical reconstruction) have been used to confirm that American military veterans were exposed to ionising radiation and that reconstruction and chromosomes produce similar estimates to film badges. Click here to read lay summary.
Full article: Simon, S.L., Bailey, S.M., Beck, H.L., Boice, J.D., Bouville, A., Brill, A.B., Cornforth, M.N., Inskip, P.D., McKenna, M.J., Mumma, M.T., Salazar, S.I. and Ukwuani, A. (2019) Estimation of Radiation Doses to U.S. Military Test Participants from Nuclear Testing: A Comparison of Historical Film Badge Measurements, Dose Reconstruction and Retrospective Biodosimetry, Radiation Research, 191, pp. 297-310..