End-to-end system test for solid-state microdosemeters
| Autor: | V. L. Pisacane, Q E Dolecek, J. F. Dicello, H Malak |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Photon
Nuclear engineering Proportional counter System testing Electrons Radiation Radiation Dosage Radiation Protection System under test Radiation Monitoring Oscillometry Materials Testing Calibration Humans Linear Energy Transfer Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiometry Physics Photons Radiological and Ultrasound Technology Detector Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Equipment Design General Medicine Energy source Algorithms |
| Zdroj: | Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 140:309-318 |
| ISSN: | 1742-3406 0144-8420 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/rpd/ncq127 |
| Popis: | The gold standard in microdosemeters has been the tissue equivalent proportional counter (TEPC) that utilises a gas cavity. An alternative is the solid-state microdosemeter that replaces the gas with a condensed phase (silicon) detector with microscopic sensitive volumes. Calibrations of gas and solid-state microdosemeters are generally carried out using radiation sources built into the detector that impose restrictions on their handling, transportation and licensing in accordance with the regulations from international, national and local nuclear regulatory bodies. Here a novel method is presented for carrying out a calibration and end-to-end system test of a microdosemeter using low-energy photons as the initiating energy source, thus obviating the need for a regulated ionising radiation source. This technique may be utilised to calibrate both a solid-state microdosemeter and, with modification, a TEPC with the higher average ionisation energy of a gas. |
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