Gafchromic films are increasingly being used for dosimetry in medical and industrial applications of ionizing radiation because of their favorable characteristics such as self developing in nature, easy to handle, dose rate independent response, insensitivity to normal room lights, high resolution and insensitivity to variation in the environment conditions. The dosimetry measurements using Gaf...

introduction according to the international commission on radiological protection publication numbers 60 and 21, the environmental control standards should ensure human and other species protection to a desirable degree. since application of radiographic procedures in veterinary medicine has increased significantly, in this study, we aimed to evaluate the entrance skin dose to the animals (e.g....

introduction: orthogonal radial fields are those in which the central axes are perpendicular to each other. an example of these orthogonal fields is the set of craniospinal orthogonal fields that are used for radiotherapy of medulloblastoma. craniospinal radial fields consist of two parallel-opposed fields for brain exposure and one or two posterior spinal fields for spinal cord exposure. the m...

We describe an optically transparent, laser heated, thermoluminescent glass dosimeter that is used for fiber-optic-coupled remote radiation monitoring. The glass consists of ZnS nanocrystallites embedded in a Vycor glass host, doped with Cu and Nd ions. An 807 nm, 1 W GaAlAs laser is used to rapidly heat microscopic regions, surrounding the Nd ions, in the composite glass to stimulate blue-gree...