Abstract
For a long time, radiation safety specialists have been aware of computer codes designed to calculate human dose exposure from beta or gamma radiation. However, these products have a major drawback: they do not consider the radiation fields generated by extended beta radiation sources due to bremsstrahlung. Existing solutions are either not widely available or use outdated nuclear-physical constants and methods for calculating dosimetric characteristics. A computer code was developed specifically for calculating shielding against bremsstrahlung. It allows to estimate effective, equivalent, exposure dose rate, ambient dose equivalent, and air kerma rate from bremsstrahlung. It utilizes the ANS/ANSI 6.4.3 materials data and the last dose conversion factors from ICRP 116.
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