Title :
Design new detection technique for deposition of radon´s daughter onto human blood samples
Author :
Ismail, Asaad Hamid ; Jaafar, Mohamad Suhaimi
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Phys., Univ. Sains Malaysia (USM), Minden, Malaysia
Abstract :
Proper amount of radon gas (30±3.11KBq/m3) collected in a tight PVC container with the appropriate engineering dimension using two sources of Radium (5μCi). Complete blood test and the computer scanning for each piece of CR-39NTDs have done before and after exposure to radon concentration (2210±5.1Bq/m3). The results show that the present design has a good efficiency, an amount of the loss of radon concentration during the process of mixing blood component did not affect on the efficiency of exposure technique. Therefore, method of mixing blood component process was successful. As well as, human blood exposure to radon gas (2210±5.1Bq/m3) makes thrombocytopenia, and no effect on red blood cell. Moreover, rate of radon-absorbed dose into the human blood samples is high at 20 minutes.
Keywords :
alpha-particle effects; biological effects of ionising particles; blood; cellular biophysics; dosimetry; nuclear track emulsions; CR-39 NTD; PVC container; blood test; detection technique; human blood samples; nuclear track detector; radium sources; radon absorbed dose rate; radon daughter particle deposition; radon gas human blood exposure; red blood cell; thrombocytopenia; Alpha particles; Blood; Detectors; Humans; Physics; Radiation effects; Surface treatment; Alpha particles; CR-39 NTDs; Human blood; Invitro study; Radon-222;
Conference_Titel :
Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Penang
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-894-5
DOI :
10.1109/IST.2011.5962165