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L. Venturini, Evaluation of systematic errors in thyroid monitoring, Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Volume 103, Issue 1, 1 January 2003, Pages 63–68, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006117
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Abstract
In this manuscript the thyroid is described by a new model. Efficiencies of a NaI(Tl) detector, for 364 keV photons, are calculated using Monte Carlo simulation. Contributions from thyroid size, detector placement and tissue overlay thickness, to the efficiency uncertainty, are evaluated considering the thyroid of a 12 year old subject as a limit for the adult thyroid. For a shielded 3" x 3" NaI(Tl) detector, placed at 20 cm from the neck, a contribution of 18% to the efficiency uncertainty was found.
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