Film Badge Dosimetry Versus Luminescence Dosimetry
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چکیده
The field of personnel radiation monitoring is presently in a state of radical change. It appears that the unreliability of the film badge is now firmly established, bringing into question the value of much of the massive amount of personnel dosimetry data accumulated in the past three decades. This article examines the evidence "against" the film badge and reviews the comparative studies "for" solid-state dosimeters in an effort to gain a fuller appreciation of the devastating appraisal of the film badge recently made by Becker (1): " ... film has to be placed in a category of accuracy close to the 'erythema dose' ... which was en vogue 50 years ago."
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