Victor Minenko

Employment
2012-now Institute for Nuclear Problems, Senior researcher at Laboratory of theoretical physics and simulation of nuclear processes

Specialization
medical dosimetry, retrospective assessment of thyroid doses

List of recent publications

1. Minenko, V., Kukhta, T., Trofimik, S., Zhukova, O., Podgaiskaya, M., Viarenich, K., ... & Drozdovitch, V. (2022). Evaluation of ¹³¹I transfer in the environment based on the available measurements made in Belarus after the Chernobyl accident. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 250, 106928.
2. Minenko, V., Viarenich, K., Zhukova, O., Kukhta, T., Podgaiskaya, M., Khrutchinsky, A., ... & Drozdovitch, V. (2020). Activity concentrations of ¹³¹I and other radionuclides in cow's milk in Belarus during the first month following the Chernobyl accident. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 220, 106264. DOI 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2020.106264
3. Drozdovitch V. et al. Thyroid dose estimates for a cohort of Belarusian persons exposed in utero and during early life to Chernobyl fallout / Drozdovitch, V., Minenko, V., Kukhta, T., Trofimik, S., Grakovitch, R., Hatch, M., ... & Ostroumova, E. //Health Physics. – 2020. – Т. 118. – №. 2. – С. 170-184.
4. Drozdovitch V. et al. Influence of the external and internal radioactive contamination of the body and the clothes on the results of the thyroidal 131 I measurements conducted in Belarus after the Chernobyl accident. Part 1: Estimation of the external and internal radioactive contamination / Drozdovitch, V., Khrouch, V., Minenko, V., Konstantinov, Y., Khrutchinsky, A., Kutsen, S., ... & Voillequé, P. //Radiation and environmental biophysics. – 2019. – Т. 58. – №. 2. – С. 195-214.
5. Makarevich K. et al. [P052] Influence of X-ray field position on doses in organs and tissues for chest radiography / Makarevich, K., Minenko, V., Kutsen, S., & Verenich, K. //Physica Medica: European Journal of Medical Physics. – 2018. – Т. 52. – С. 114.
6. Cahoon E. K. et al. Risk of thyroid nodules in residents of Belarus exposed to Chernobyl fallout as children and adolescents / E. K. Cahoon, E. A. Nadyrov, O. N. Polyanskaya, V. V. Yauseyenka, I. V. Veyalkin, T. I. Yeudachkova, T. I. Maskvicheva, V. F. Minenko, W. Liu, V. Drozdovitch, K. Mabuchi, M. P. Little, L. B. Zablotska, R. J. McConnell, M. Hatch, K. O. Peters, A. V. Rozhko //The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. – 2017. – Т. 102. – №. 7. – С. 2207-2217.
7. Drozdovitch V. et al. Reliability of questionnaire data in the distant past: relevance for radiation exposure assessment / Drozdovitch, V., Kukhta, T., Minenko, V., Trofimik, S., Bouville, A., & Potischman, N. //Health physics. – 2016. – Т. 110. – №. 1. – С. 74.
8. Drozdovich V. Thyroid dose estimates for a cohort of Belarusian children exposed to 131I from the Chernobyl accident: assessment of uncertainties / V. Drozdovitch, V. Minenko, I. Golovanov, A. Khrutchinsky, T. Kuhta [et al.] // Radiation Research. 2015. Vol 184. No. 2. PP. 203-218.
9. Drozdovitch V. Thyroid dose estimates of a cohort of Belarusian children exposed to radiation from the Chernobyl accident / V. Drozdovitch, V. Minenko, V. Khrouch, S. Leshcheva, Y. Gavrilin [et al.] // Radiation research. 2013. Vol. 179. No. 5. PP. 597-609.
10. A. Khrutchinsky, V. Drozdovitch, S. Kutsen, V. Minenko, V. Khrouch, N. Luckyanov, P. Voilleque, A. Bouville. Mathematical modeling of a survey-meter used to measure radioactivity in human thyroids: Monte Carlo calculations of the device response and uncertainties. / Applied Radiation and Isotopes. Vol.70, №4(2012). pp. 743–751
11. L B Zablotska, E Ron, A V Rozhko, M Hatch, O N Polyanskaya, A V Brenner, J Lubin, G N Romanov, R J McConnell, P O'Kane, V V Evseenko, V V Drozdovitch, N Luckyanov, V F Minenko, A Bouville and V B Masyakin Thyroid cancer risk in Belarus among children and adolescents exposed to radioiodine after the Chernobyl accident Br J Cancer. 2011 January 4; 104(1): 181–187.
12. Minenko, V. Assessment of patient doses in X-ray diagnostics. / V. Minenko [et al.] //Int. J. Low Radiation, 2010. Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 140-148. doi:10.1504/IJLR.2010.032817
13. A.Khrutchinsky, S.Kutsen, V.Minenko, O.Zhukova, N.Luckyanov, A.Bouville, V.Drozdovitch. Monte Carlo modeling of beta-radiometer device used to measure milk contaminated as a result of the Chernobyl accident. Applied Radiation and Isotopes 67 (2009) 1089–1093.