PRESAGE is a radiochromic solid dosimeter which shows promising potential for 3D proton beam dosimetry. Since an idea dosimeter should be water-equivalent, total depth dose distributions in two PRESAGE formulations irradiated by a 62 MeV proton beam were compared with that in water using GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulations. The dose delivered by secondary particles was also calculated. Our results s...

A new extremity TLD system has been developed and tested that provides for user convenience and automated processing while meeting various accreditation requirements. The design is a result of successful collaboration among organisational entities in different countries and included research centres, users, and the manufacturer. The primary consideration was to meet the needs of the medical mar...

The research reported in this paper on the changes in absorbance and the calibration of a proposed UVA (320-400 nm) dosimeter have established the phenothiazine-mylar combination as a potential UVA dosimeter for population studies of UVA exposures. The change in optical absorbance at 370 nm was employed to quantify the UVA exposures. This change starts to saturate at a change in absorbance of a...

We show that the commonly known conductor boundary conditions E|| = B⊥ = 0 can be realized in two ways which we call ’thick’ and ’thin’ conductor. The ’thick’ conductor is the commonly known approach and includes a Neumann condition on the normal component E⊥ of the electric field whereas for a ’thin’ conductor E⊥ remains without boundary condition. Both types describe different physics already...

Conductor is a numerical invariant of a variety over a local field measuring the wild ramification of the inertia action on the l-adic etale cohomology. In [3], S.Bloch proposes a conjectural formula, Conjecture 1.9, which we call the conductor formula of Bloch. To formulate it, he defines another numerical invariant as the degree of the self-intersection class, which is defined using the local...