Luiz Bertelli

Summary

Affiliation: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Internal dose assessment data management system for a large population of Pu workers
    L Bertelli
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS G761, RP 2, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 127:347-9. 2007
  2. ncbi Three plutonium chelation cases at Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Luiz Bertelli
    RP 2, Health Physics Measurements, Radiation Protection, Mailstop G761, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
    Health Phys 99:532-8. 2010
  3. ncbi Technical basis for using nose swab bioassay data for early internal dose assessment
    Raymond A Guilmette
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS G471, RP 2, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 127:356-60. 2007
  4. ncbi Software for empirical building of biokinetic models for normal and decorporation-affected data
    Guthrie Miller
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM 87108, USA
    Health Phys 103:484-94. 2012
  5. ncbi The NCRP wound model: development and application
    Raymond A Guilmette
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS G761, RP 2, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 127:103-7. 2007
  6. ncbi A study of early Los Alamos internal exposures to plutonium
    G Miller
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS M992, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 130:503-9. 2008
  7. ncbi Poisson mixture model for measurements using counting
    Guthrie Miller
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 138:363-75. 2010
  8. ncbi Uncertainties in internal doses calculated for Mayak workers--a study of 63 cases
    G Miller
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 131:316-30. 2008
  9. ncbi IMPDOS (improved dosimetry and risk assessment for plutonium-induced diseases): internal dosimetry software tools developed for the Mayak worker study
    G Miller
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 131:308-15. 2008
  10. ncbi An empirical multivariate log-normal distribution representing uncertainty of biokinetic parameters for 137Cs
    G Miller
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 131:198-211. 2008

Detail Information

Publications15

  1. ncbi Internal dose assessment data management system for a large population of Pu workers
    L Bertelli
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS G761, RP 2, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 127:347-9. 2007
    ..The software also provides summary status and reports of the pending DAs, which are useful for managing the cases in process...
  2. ncbi Three plutonium chelation cases at Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Luiz Bertelli
    RP 2, Health Physics Measurements, Radiation Protection, Mailstop G761, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
    Health Phys 99:532-8. 2010
    ..An efficacy factor of about 50 was observed for a chelation treatment, which was administered at about 1.5 y after the incident, though the corresponding averted dose was very small (LA-UR 09-02934)...
  3. ncbi Technical basis for using nose swab bioassay data for early internal dose assessment
    Raymond A Guilmette
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS G471, RP 2, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 127:356-60. 2007
    ..However, this value is specific to the methods and models used at LANL, and should not be applied directly without considering possible differences in measurement and calculation methods...
  4. ncbi Software for empirical building of biokinetic models for normal and decorporation-affected data
    Guthrie Miller
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM 87108, USA
    Health Phys 103:484-94. 2012
    ..The radiation dose to the animal is also calculated using S quantities specific for the animal, although the tissue weighting factors used to calculate the effective dose are those for the human...
  5. ncbi The NCRP wound model: development and application
    Raymond A Guilmette
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS G761, RP 2, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 127:103-7. 2007
    ..The latter application is needed for bioassay interpretation...
  6. ncbi A study of early Los Alamos internal exposures to plutonium
    G Miller
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS M992, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 130:503-9. 2008
    ..The urine bioassay data from this time period were not of high quality, and the more accurate intake prior tempers the effect of spurious high samples, which were probably caused by sample contamination...
  7. ncbi Poisson mixture model for measurements using counting
    Guthrie Miller
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 138:363-75. 2010
    ..The main purpose of this paper is to derive formulas for exact likelihood calculations in the case of various kinds of backgrounds...
  8. ncbi Uncertainties in internal doses calculated for Mayak workers--a study of 63 cases
    G Miller
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 131:316-30. 2008
    ..The main conclusion of the study is that these methods are now ready to be applied to the entire Mayak worker population...
  9. ncbi IMPDOS (improved dosimetry and risk assessment for plutonium-induced diseases): internal dosimetry software tools developed for the Mayak worker study
    G Miller
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 131:308-15. 2008
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  10. ncbi An empirical multivariate log-normal distribution representing uncertainty of biokinetic parameters for 137Cs
    G Miller
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 131:198-211. 2008
    ..The importance sampling method gives much smaller sampling uncertainty. No sampling method-dependent differences are perceptible for the uniform distribution methods...
  11. ncbi Internal dosimetry verification and validation database
    G Miller
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 127:361-9. 2007
    ..A 'correct' result has been defined in two ways: (1) that the credible limits of the calculated dose include the correct dose and (2) that the calculated dose is within a factor of 2 of the correct dose...
  12. ncbi Bayesian hypothesis testing-use in interpretation of measurements
    G Miller
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS E546, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
    Health Phys 94:248-54. 2008
    ..Real numerical examples are given and discussed, including the distribution of the non-null hypothesis probability over 4,000 internal dosimetry cases. Currently used comparable methods based on classical statistics are discussed...
  13. ncbi Worldwide bioassay data resources for plutonium/americium internal dosimetry studies
    G Miller
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, HSR 12, Los Alamos, NM, USA
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 125:531-7. 2007
    ..A case is made for a uniform standard for database format, and the XML standard is discussed...
  14. ncbi Uranium dose assessment: a Bayesian approach to the problem of dietary background
    Tom Little
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS G761, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 127:333-8. 2007
    ..These methods, coupled with an algorithm for identifying each individual's baseline level of uranium from environmental sources, yield improved reliability in the identification of occupational intakes...
  15. ncbi Comparison of dose estimation from occupational exposure to 239Pu using different modelling approaches
    S A Romanov
    Southern Urals Biophysics Institute, Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, Russia
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 127:486-90. 2007
    ..Thus, a careful validation of Pu lung dosimetry model is needed in Mayak worker dosimetry systems...