The Health Physicists Companion

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The Health Physicists Companion

• A software solution for radiation safety
  professionals

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Overview

• Database of 2800 nuclides
• Full decay, emission and intake data
• Database of 1400 absorption coefficients
• For 17 absorbing materials
• Mass energy-absorption
• Mass attenuation
• Database of 400 G-P beam build-up coefficients
• For 15 shielding materials
• Database of X-ray set dose rate constants
• 100 tube voltages
• 20 beam filtrations
• Database of X-ray set shielding values
• Industrial
• Medical

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What does HPC do?

• Radioactive decay calculations
• Serial decay and decay equilibrium
• Radionuclide dose rate calculations
• With shielding
• Narrow and broad-beam conditions
• Capped dose rate calculations
• Photon Shielding calculations
• Narrow and broad-beam conditions
• HVL
• Beta emission
• Range calculations
• Dose calculations

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What does HPC do?

• Units conversions
• Radon calculations
• Dose, detriment etc.
• X-ray set calculations
• Dose rates
• For specified tube voltage, current and
  filtration
• Shield attenuation

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Help

• Full on-line help system
• Radiation tutorials on
• Radioactivity, Radon
• X-rays, Radiological units definitions
• Hypertext version of the Ionising Radiations
  Regulations 1999
• Integrated algebraic calculator

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