Calculation of Canine Dose Rate Conversion Factors for Photons and Electrons.

Urban search and rescue (USAR) dogs are valuable members of their teams and play key roles in performing successful missions. A pair of dogs can do the work of dozens of people, the dogs are able to quickly sniff around collapsed structures and zip through constricted hallways with far greater accuracy than their plodding human counterparts. While in contaminated areas, their human counterparts are afforded the benefit of personal protective equipment (PPE) to keep exposures to chemical, biological and radiological substances to a minimum; USAR dogs, on the other hand, are not.