Author: Dean

  • ARPAB ‘reading’ list

    I’ve always struggled to come up with an appropriate reading list for the CRSA exam. It’s either a fistful of textbooks which go into excruciating detail on how x-ray tubes work, or it’s a two paragraph explanation that isn’t helpful.

    To address this, I’ve put together a YouTube playlist which I hope will be helpful. This playlist is by no means complete, and I may add to it over time as the question bank evolves but for those who have experience in only one or two specific areas of radiation protection, this is intended to be a primer into the other areas. For instance, medical physicists who need to know about radiation in mining, or radiologists who need to know about transport.

    If there are any other videos you think should be added, please leave a comment below.

  • ARPAB @ ARPS2025

    I’m doing a thing again.

  • A great paper on Bayesian Decision Analysis (BDA) for occupational hygiene exposure rating

    2006 Rating-exposure-control-using-bayesian deciion analysis_HewittDownload

    Hewett, P., Logan, P., Mulhausen, J., Ramachandran, G., & Banerjee, S. (2006). Rating Exposure Control Using Bayesian Decision Analysis. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 3(10), 568–581. https://doi.org/10.1080/15459620600914641

    An amaing read if you can get through the code and make it work yourself. The R code is very VERY clever which as a result makes it less than intuitive whats being done.

  • Hello world!

    First blog post. Not much to report for now but thinking of a library section thet’ll be a straight-up dump from my Zotero biblography software or Obsidian vault. Remains to be seen……