Scientific
Symposium
Uncertainties
in dosimetry – principles through to practice
26th January 2006
Health Protection Agency,
Radiation Protection Division
Chilton, Oxfordshire
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Programme(Abstracts:
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| 8:30 | Registration and coffee |
| 9:00 | Roger Cox (HPA) - Welcome and short update on ICRP new recommendations |
| 9:10 | Bernd Siebert (PTB) - Uncertainty in radiation dosimetry - Basic concepts and methods |
| 9:55 | Cox/Harries (NPL) - The use of a Monte Carlo method for uncertainty calculation, with an application to the measurement of neutron ambient dose equivalent rate |
| 10:40 | Coffee/tea |
| 11:20 | Peter Ambrosi (PTB) - Uncertainties in workplace external dosimetry - An analytic approach |
| 11:50 | Janwillem van Dijk (NRG) - Uncertainties in workplace external dosimetry - A Monte Carlo approach |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | Colin Muirhead (HPA) Radiation risk estimates: underlying uncertainties |
| 14:10 | George Etherington
(HPA) - Uncertainties in
assessments of doses from intakes of radionuclides |
| 14:50 | Rolf Michel (Hanover
University) - Bayesian Decision Threshold, Detection Limit and Confidence Limits in Ionising Radiation Measurements |
| 15:30 | Coffee/tea |
| 16:00 | Marcel Reginatto
(PTB) - A Bayesian
approach to uncertainties |
| 16:40 | Maarten Dirkx (Erasmus MC-Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center Rotterdam) - Reducing uncertainties in radiotherapy treatment delivery using an electronic portal imaging device |
| 17:20 | Close |
| 17:40 | Transport
to Oxford |
| 19:00 | Reception |
| 19:30 | Dinner |
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