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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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The U.S. Million Person Study of Low-Dose-Rate Health Effects
There is a critical knowledge gap regarding the health consequences of exposure to radiation received gradually over time. While there is a plethora of studies on the risks of adverse outcomes from both acute and high-dose exposures, including the landmark study of atomic bomb survivors, these are not characteristic of the chronic exposure to low-dose radiation encountered in occupational and public settings. In addition, smaller cohorts have limited numbers leading to reduced statistical power.
Qingjun Zhu, Xianfang Meng, Wuhui Chen, Songlin Liu, Kai Huang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 207 | Number 2 | February 2021 | Pages 285-291
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2020.1750250
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A methodology for designing a Bonner sphere spectrometer was proposed based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) and information entropy theory. First, features of Bonner spheres were classified based on SVD, and then, the rationality of the selected spheres was analyzed. Second, the information entropy is used as the quantitative evaluation standard; combined with the unfolding method, the contribution of each Bonner sphere on the information entropy of the unfolded spectra was quantitatively analyzed. The spheres that have high influence on the information entropy of solution spectra can be identified, and then, the information entropy variation of the solution spectra can be suppressed by reducing the count fluctuation of these spheres. According to the proposed method, an optimized spectrometer was developed and applied to measuring 252Cf spectra.