Radiation dosimetry is fundamental in Medical Physics, involving patients and phantom dosimetry. In both cases thennoluminescence dosimetry (TLD) is the most appropriate technique for measuring the absorbed dose. In this paper thennoluminescence phenomenon as well as the use of TLD in radiodiagnosis and radiotherapy for in vivo or in phantom measurements is discussed. Some results of measuremen...

background : sensitivity is an important dosimetric issue particularly in personal dosimetry where the range of doses is often very low to medium. in-service aging is assumed to be of negligible effect on the response of thermoluminescent dosimeters (tld), consequently, some service providers may mix fresh tlds to in-use ones and simply normalize the readings of tlds through batch calibration. ...

SIRADs (self-indicating instant radiation alert dosimeters) are designed to measure accident radiation doses. As the energy of radiation is usually unknown in such situations, a detector with a weak energy dependence of its response to dose would be ideal. We have studied the energy dependence of the dose response of SIRADs in the range from 50kVp to 10MV, which corresponds to photon equivalent...

PURPOSE Thermoluminescent dosimeters are used routinely for dosimetric measurements of photon and electron fields. However, no work has been published characterizing TLDs for use in combined photon and electron fields. This work investigates the response of TLD-100 (LiF:Mg,Ti) in mixed fields of photon and electron beam qualities. METHODS TLDs were irradiated in a 6 MV photon beam, 6 MeV elec...

Studies were carried out to determine the contribution of secondary photons to the calibration set-up of a Secondary Standard Dosimetry Laboratory. In these studies the response of LiF:Mg TLD-100 to known exposures using Cs-137 panoramic-source were investigated. Each TLD chip showed a linear dose response to radiation, demonstrating a typical characteristic of LiF:Mg chips. Whilst TLDs showed ...

A standard protocol of dosimetric measurements is used by the organizations responsible for verifying that the doses delivered in radiation-therapy institutions are within authorized limits. This study evaluated a self-designed simple auditing phantom for use in verifying the dose of radiation therapy; the phantom design, dose audit system, and clinical tests are described. Thermoluminescent do...

background: the purpose of this study was to investigate the various gantry angle and ssd dependencies of tld and mosfet dosimeters. materials and methods: lif (mg) tld and mosfet were used in this study. dosimeter systems were calibrated and then irradiated at various gantry angle and ssd by applying 6 mv photon energy. results: based on the results, mosfet changes were found to be in 2% range...

The objective of this paper is to review the use thermoluminescence (TL) and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) techniques as research tools in luminescence, particularly detect presence trapping centers that can degrade efficiency scintillators, shape properties persistent phosphors, storage phosphors dosimeters. A brief main analysis provided, followed by a discussion their limitations. ...

background: there is not any report on the radiation doses received by patients in diagnostic radiology sections in hospitals under control of chaharmahal and bakhtiari medical sciences university, in the south west of iran. objectives: the aim of this study is measurement of entrance surface doses (esd) for the most routine types of x-ray procedures in radiology centers as part of ongoing dose...