Effective Dose Calculator for body and collar dosimeter readings:
Using ICRP-60 Tissue Weighting Factors:
Assuming a lead apron and thyroid collar are worn during exposure
Assuming no special sensitivity to the brain or salivary glands.
Instructions:
Enter the body and collar readings.
You may change how dose is distributed between the body (shielded) and
collar (unshielded) dose, but the sum of the dose fractions must equal 1
Hit Calculate at the bottom of the page to see the effective dose
Hit Reset to restore default tissue weighting factos and dose fractions.
Enter Body reading:
Enter Collar reading:
Organ/Tissue Group
Tissue Weighting Factor
Fraction of organ/tissue receiving shielded dose
(e.g. body dose reading)
Fraction of organ/tissue receiving unshielded dose
(e.g. collar dose reading)
Thyroid:
Esophagus:
Breast:
Lung:
Stomach:
Liver:
Colon:
Bladder:
Gonads:
RBM:
Skin:
Bone:
Remainder:
TWF normalized total used in calculation:
The EDE is
milli-Sieverts.
DISCLAIMER: This is an educational tool. Different legal jurisdictions may have different means by which effective dose must be calculated. Use at your own risk.