Screening Internal Contamination of Inhaled and Ingested Radionuclides with Hand-held Survey Meters

Screening Internal Contamination of Inhaled and Ingested Radionuclides with Hand-held Survey Meters

Gryphon Scientific examined the detectability of internal contamination with radionuclides using external survey in Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport Code (MCNP) using sophisticated voxelized phantoms of the human body. Detectors were limited to hand-held survey meters to estimate the utility of external detection in mass-casualty incidents.