Publications

PCAire is based on 20 000 individual dose rate measurements worldwide. A sophisticated radiation detector, the Tissue Equivalent Proportional Counter (TEPC) was flown on many flights worldwide and the measured dose rate was correlated to the aircraft's altitude, position and the time of the flight to create a dose rate "map" of the world. PCAire uses this map, along with information on the effect of the solar cycle, to estimate the dose on any flight in the world.

PCAire is the only program that is based on actual measurements. Ultimately, it is most reliable and trustworthy method to estimate the dose.

The following publications describe the scientific research that supports the development of the PCAire program.

Aircrew Exposure from Cosmic Radiation on Commercial Airline Routes (published in Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Vol. 93, No. 4, pp.293-314, 2001)
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Galactic and Solar Radiation Exposure to Aircrew during a Solar Cycle (published in Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Vol. 102, No. 3, pp.207-222, 2002)
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Assessment of Aircrew Radiation Exposure by further Measurements and Model Development (published in Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Vol. 111, No. 2, pp. 151-171, 2004)
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Aircrew Dosimetry using the Predictive Code for Aircrew Radiation Exposure (PCAIRE) (published in Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Vol. 116, No. 1-4, pp. 320-326, 2005)
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An empirical approach to the measurement of the cosmic radiation field at jet aircraft altitudes (published in Advances in Space Research, Vol. 36, pp. 1618-1626, 2005)
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