Clarification of DOSE-EQ units in a USRBIN estimator

Dear FLUKA users, can someone confirm whether the following statements are correct?

- USRBIN scoring (spacial binning)
pSv/cm^3*prim - with no IRRPROF card
pSv/cm^3*sec - with an IRRPROF card

- USRBIN scoring (region binning)
pSv/prim - with no IRRPROF card and with no volume input for the given in the geometry section)
pSv/sec - with an IRRPROF card and with no volume input for the given in the geometry section)

pSv/prim - with no IRRPROF card and with the region volume given in the geometry section)
pSv/sec - with an IRRPROF card and with the region volume given in the geometry section)

So regardless of whether region volumes are given in the geometry section, units are pSv/prim or pSv/sec in the region
binning? This is how I interpret the manual under USRBIN:

13) The results from USRBIN are normalised per unit volume and per unit
      primary weight, except for region binnings and special user-defined
      binnings, which are normalised per unit primary weight only, for
      DPA, which are given as number of displacements per atom per unit
      primary weight, averaged over the bin volume, and for dose <==============
      equivalent, expressed as pSv per unit primary weight. <==============
      In case symmetries are requested, proper rescaled volumes are taken
      into account for normalisation (that is, an extra factor 2 is
      applied to the volume if symmetry around one plane is required, 8 if
      the symmetry is around the origin)

Thank you for the clarification,
Mina
Received on Fri Apr 13 2012 - 10:04:06 CEST