CCC-0577 ALDOSE. (Abstract last modified 27-DEC-1995)
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NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM - ALDOSE. 2.
COMPUTER FOR WHICH PROGRAM IS DESIGNED AND OTHER MACHINE VERSION PACKAGES AVAILABLE -
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Machines used:
Package-ID Orig.Computer Test Computer
CCC-0577/01 IBM PC Many Computers
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DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION - ALDOSE calculates the absorbed dose rate, dose-rate equivalent rate, and dose-weighted LET as functions of depth in water irradiated by a uniform alpha disk source. In addition, the average LET and average quality factor for the irradiated water are computed. The source may have a layer of gold, and may be separated from the water by a layer of Mylar. The source may have up to 12 source energies up to 15 MeV. Output data are tabulated as histograms and graphs in files which can be accessed by the user for further processing.
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METHOD OF SOLUTION - Calculations are based on range-energy tables for alpha rays in gold, Mylar, and water and employ ray tracing. Quality factors are based on ICRP Publication 26. The average LET in a subslab is used to assign a quality factor for the dose that the alpha particle delivers there.
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RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM - Three materials, 12 energies, up to 15 MeV, slab geometry.
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TYPICAL RUNNING TIME - The sample problem requires 2.42 minutes on a MicroVax II; 9 minutes on Data General MV/4000; 0.25 minutes on a
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UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM - 8.
RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS - 9.
STATUS 10.
REFERENCES - 11.
MACHINE REQUIREMENTS - ALDOSE runs on the IBM PC and compatibles with a math coprocessor. It was developed on a MicroVax II and tested on a VAX 6000 (VMS) and Data General MV/4000 (AOS/VS).
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PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED - 13.
OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED - 14.
OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS - The 15.
NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS - 16.
MATERIAL AVAILABLE - 17.
CATEGORIES - Keywords: ALPHA PARTICLES, DOSE RATES, WATER
Program-name Package-ID Status
ALDOSE CCC-0577/01 Tested
VAX 6000; 47 minutes on an IBM PC (4 MHz).
CCC-0577/01:
The sample problem of the program ALDOSE was executed in three different machines in the tests performed at the NEA/DB. The corresponding running times are displayed in the following table.
C O M P U T E R Running Time (s)
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PC Brett - Pentium processor , 75 MHz 15
DEC VAX 6000/510 10
DEC 3000 Model 300X - Alpha AXP Workstation 1.4
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CCC-0577/01: 27-DEC-1995 Tested at NEADB
CCC-0577/01:
- T.E. Huston and J.E. Turner:
A User's Manual for ALDOSE: A Computer Code for Calculating
Absorbed-Dose Rate, Dose-Equivalent Rate, and Dose-Weighted
LET as Functions of Depth in Water Irradiated by an Alpha
Disc Source
ORNL/M-11618, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (August 1990)
- T.E. Huston and J.E. Turner:
ALDOSE: A Computer Code to Calculate Absorbed-Dose Rate,
Dose-Equivalent Rate, and Dose-Weighted LET as Functions of
Depth in Water Irradiated by an Alpha-Particle Disc Source
Health Physics Vol.60, No.4 pp 581-585 (April 1991)
CCC-0577/01:
The program ALDOSE was tested and installed on the following computers: (1) PC-Brett, Pentium processor 75 MHz, with 16 Mbyte of RAM. The filesize of the executable created using the Microsoft compiler and linker is 43 Kbyte. - (2) DEC VAX 6000/510 running OpenVMS 6.0. The peak working set size to execute the sample problem is 372 Kbyte.
CCC-0577/01: FORTRAN-77
CCC-0577/01:
At the tests conducted at the NEA/DB, the program ALDOSE was installed and the sample problems were executed in the following computers, operating systems and using the compilers indicated: (1) PC/Pentium under MS-DOS 6.2 and using Microsoft Fortran compiler version 5.10; (2) DEC VAX 6000/510 running under OpenVMS 6.0-1 and using the DEC FORTRAN-77 compiler; (3) DEC 3000 Model 300X Alpha AXP Workstation running under DEC OSF/1 V3.2 and using the DEC Fortran (f77) V3.4 compiler
code was written in Fortran 77. Calls for system date and time and OPEN statements must be tailored for each system. The source code contains the necessary statements; the ones not needed are "Commented out." The code was compiled and linked on the IBM PC with Microsoft Version 5.0.
Contributed by:
Radiation Shielding Information Center
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U. S. A.
Developed by:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U. S. A.
CCC-0577/01:
CCC0577_01.001 Information file of package ALDOSE 212 records
CCC0577_01.002 Source file of program ALDOSE for VAX system 318 records
CCC0577_01.003 Source file of program ALDOSE for PC's 321 records
CCC0577_01.004 Source file of aux. routine SETIO (for PC's) 29 records
CCC0577_01.005 PC-executable of program ALDOSE 0 records
CCC0577_01.006 Sample input file with the problem specs 30 records
CCC0577_01.007 Sample input file with range-energy data 85 records
CCC0577_01.008 Sample output file (PC) 157 records
CCC0577_01.009 Aux. output file for producing plots (PC) 157 records
CCC0577_01.010 Sample output file (VAX) 157 records
CCC0577_01.011 Aux. output file for producing plots (VAX) 131 records
CCC0577_01.012 DOS file-names 11 records
- G. Radiological Safety, Hazard and Accident Analysis
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