A prototype UVA dosimeter that is responsive to the UVA wavelengths only has been developed for measurement of personal exposures. The chemical phenothiazine, cast in thin film form and which is responsive to both the UVA (320400 nm) and UVB (280-320 nm) part of the spectrum was used and filtered with mylar. This combined system responded to the UVA wavelengths only and underwent a change in op...

A simple optical dosimeter was used to measure the light intensity in rat liver and muscle in vivo with fibers positioned at different depths to investigate whether the light penetration changed during photodynamic therapy (PDT). The results were then correlated with measurements of the three optical-interaction coefficients µ(s), µ(a) and g for wavelengths in the range 500-800 nm for PDT-treat...

Gamma irradiation device using Cs-137 have been widely utilized to the irradiation of cell, blood, and animal, and the dose measurement and education. The Gammacell 3000 Elan (Nordion International, Kanata, Ontario, Canada) irradiator was installed in 2003 with Cs-137 and dose rate of 3.2 Gy/min. And the BioBeam 8000 (Gamma-Service Medical GmbH, Leipzig, Germany) irradiator was installed in 200...

Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPM hence-over) do represent the state of the art for low visible light flux measurements with single photon sensitivity [1,2]. Whether most of the envisaged applications are related to pulsed light [3–5], the response to a constant light field is certainly of interest. This was investigated within RAPSODI (Radiation Protection with Silicon Optoelectronics Devices an...

Dose rate measurements have been performed around the cupper, tungsten and aluminum targets bombarded by 18, 25 and 34 MeV electrons. The detectors were set at 500 mm from the target and the angles were 0, 30, 60, 90 and 120 degrees in the direction to the beam line. Three kinds of detectors were applied for the measurements, miniature ionization chamber and glass dosimeter for photons, and CR-...

Background: Neutron contamination in our environment can cause harmful biological effects on human body. Therefore, many efforts have been made to construct a neutron dosimeter to estimate the received dose. Objective: To design a simple neutron dosimeter. Methods: The primary dosimeter had 3He as a spherical thermal neutron detector encircled by paraffin 10 cm in radius. Then, the paraffin sph...

Delivery quality assurance (DQA) has been performed for each Tomotherapy patient either using ArcCHECK or MatriXX Evolution in our clinic since 2012. ArcCHECK is a quasi-3D dosimeter whereas MatriXX is a 2D detector. A review of DQA results was performed for all patients in the last three years, a total of 221 DQA plans. These DQA plans came from 215 patients with a variety of treatment sites i...

Linac x-ray and direct gamma irradiation sources were used in this study to irradiate simple polycrystalline alaninein-glass (AiG) dosimeters with low-doses, typical for medical therapy, and high-doses, typical for syringes’ sterilization processe, respectively. The generated “stable” alanine radicals were quantitatively investigated by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy in the ...

Although it is well known that radiation causes mutational damage, little is known about the biological effects of long-term exposure to radiation in space. Exposure to radiation can result in serious heritable defects in experimental animals, and in humans, susceptibility to cancer, radiation-sickness, and death at high dosages. It is possible to do ground controlled studies of different types...