Review of Methods for Determining Glow Peak Kinetics Parameters of Thermoluminescence Dosemeters

In the field of thermoluminescence dosimetry the daily analysis of multi-peak glow curves includes computerized curve-fitting methods, the so-called deconvolutions. These are in need of restricting the kinetic parameters E and s in order to obtain physically relevant results. There have been suggested various methods for the determination of these kinetic parameters based on a theory treating single peaks. Therefore, the applicability of these methods to non-single peaks is still vague. In this work the initial rise method, different peak shape methods and the method of different heating rates are probed by means of measurements with the dosimeters TLD-600, TLD-700 and TLD-300.