introduction: in radiotherapy, methods of treatment planning are becoming increasingly more complicated. this requires verification of the doses delivered to increasingly smaller and more precise regions. radiotherapy techniques are continuously employing smaller and smaller field sizes to deliver tighter radiation doses with higher therapeutic ratios, generating interest among researchers to p...

background: radon, thoron and their progenies are the most important contributions to human exposure from natural sources. radon exists in soil gas, building materials, indoor atmosphere etc. among all the natural sources of radiation dose to human beings, inhalation of radon contributes a lot. the work presented here emphasizes the long term measurements of radon, thoron and their progeny conc...

This work intend to identify and follow up quality control parameters to improve thermoluminescence dosemeter (TLD) system used for personal dosimetry in ionizing radiation metrology laboratory (IRML). Characterization of personal dosimetry system has presented in terms of the stability of reader calibration factors, linearity of response for Cs as reference radiation source, energy and angular...

Various methodologies using a wide range of measurement systems have been employed previously in order to determine the amount of UV that could be incident upon various aquatic organisms in a number of different aquatic locales. Broadband meters and spectroradiometers have been employed extensively to take underwater measurements. However, these measurement campaigns are limited by the fact tha...

Introduction: Three physical conditions caused an external beam designated as a small field. The first is the loss of lateral charged particle equilibrium. The second is the effect of collimators on the primary photon source occlusion. The third condition is the size of the detector which is large compared to the field size. The most obvious perturbation effects in last condit...

PURPOSE To determine the accuracy of smart devices (iPods) to measure intermittent noise and integrate a noise dose in the workplace. MATERIALS AND METHODS In experiment 1, four iPods were each paired with a Larson Davis Spark dosimeter and exposed to randomly fluctuating pink noise in a reverberant sound chamber. Descriptive statistics and the mean difference between the iPod and its paired ...

To modernize the management of sensitive nuclear materials, Argonne National Laboratory has developed the ARG-US radio frequency identification (RFID) system for the Packaging Certification Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Packaging and Transportation. The system consists of battery-powered RFID tags, a reader network, an application software suite, secured database ser...

Abstract A radiation-tolerant silicon carbide (SiC) based dosimeter was developed for the measurement of linear energy transfer (LET) distributions along Bragg curve pristine and spread-out peak (SOBP) clinical carbon beam. Since conventional ionized chamber is not suitable effective LET measurement, several energy-dispersive dosimeters are being tested in field. While most detector lacks radia...