BASEMENT CAR PARKS: A DOMICILE OF RADON POLLUTION VALIDATED BY DISCOMFORT INDEX
Published In: 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN APPLIED SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Author(s): AH BU-OLAYAN , BV THOMAS
Abstract: Investigation in the public basement car parks from six Governorates of Kuwait showed the influence of radon concentrations and the probable discomfort caused while parking their cars. Radon concentrations in the public semi-closed car parks distributed in the six Governorate sites were analyzed using Rad7 (Durridge, USA).The peak concentration of radon from the six Kuwait Governorate car parks was relatively higher during the winter season (63.15Bq/m3) than during the summer season (41.73Bq/m3).This validated the influence of relative humidity and temperature, the components of discomfort index (DI). The mean annual absorbed dose rate radon (DRn) and annual effective dose (HE) was observed high when the assessment included the car parks and the surrounding residential apartment and office premises. The DRn (0.02mSv/y) and HE 0.06mSv/y) of radon in the car parks alone indicated radon concentrations below the permissible limits. Statistical assessment indicated the significant differenc
- Publication Date: 13-Mar-2016
- DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-086-6-02
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SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION OF RADIOTHERAPY DATA FOR EFFECTIVE DATA MINING
Published In: 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN APPLIED SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Author(s): ANDRE DEKKER , GEETHA MAHADEVAIAH , JOHAN VAN SOEST , NARENDRANATH UDUPA , R.V.PRASAD , SHYAM VASUDEV RAO , Y.KIRAN KUMAR
Abstract: Radiotherapy plays an important role in the treatment of cancer patients. As part of clinical workflow, patient has to undergo through diagnostic imaging procedures, which are used to identify the tumor location and size. Enormous amounts of data are generated during this procedure. The volume of medical information is so large and complex that it becomes difficult to mine for relevant information. The Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard is widely used in medicine for storing and transmitting medical information. The DICOM-RT is the extension to DICOM standard, and dedicated to radiotherapy. In this paper, we propose a technique to store clinical relevant features from DICOM files using semantic concepts. The proposed technique defines a novel method to delayer the hierarchy of DICOM-RT for storing the clinical relevant information into triples in Resource Description Framework (RDF) repository. The methodology also proposes different combinations for storin
- Publication Date: 13-Mar-2016
- DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-086-6-03
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