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M.N. Varma, C.S. Wuu, M. Zaider, Hit Size Effectiveness in Relation to the Microdosimetric Site Size, Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Volume 52, Issue 1-4, 1 April 1994, Pages 339–346, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a082211
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Abstract
This paper examines the effect of site size (that is, the diameter of the microdosimetric volume) on the hit size effectiveness function (HSEF), q(y), for several endpoints relevant in radiation protection. A Bayesian and maximum entropy approach is used to solve the integral equations that determine, given microdosimetric spectra and measured initial slopes, the function q(y). All microdosimetric spectra have been calculated de novo. The somewhat surprising conclusion of this analysis is that site size plays only a minor role in selecting the hit size effectiveness function q(y). It thus appears that practical means (e.g. conventional proportional counters) are already at hand to actually implement the HSEF as a radiation protection tool.