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M Tubiana. 2005. Linear no-threshold dogma.. https://doi.org/10.1259/bjr%2F75286571
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In this study, the temperature-induced variations in the TLD-100 response and the modifications in its glow peaks are investigated in real environmental exposure conditions in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where ambient temperatures during summer reach >45 degrees C and with relative humidity of <10%. Three groups of 12 TLD-100 cards in Harshaw type 8814 TLD cardholders were deployed as environmental dosemeters for a period of approximately 1 month for 12 consecutive months. One group was irradiated to 5 mGy 137Cs prior to deployment; another was irradiated to the same dose after deployment, while the last group was left unirradiated. Analysis of glow curves was done using commercially available glow curve deconvolution software (CGCD). Monthly variations in peak 3, 4 and 5 areas relative to the corresponding peak areas of a prompt glow curve are presented. Results of this study show good TL signal compensation between peaks 4 and 5 at all ambient temperatures encountered in this experiment, despite the observed individual variations experienced by each of these peaks. The sum of peak 4 and 5 areas is constant to within approximately 10%, for both pre- and post-irradiated dosemeters, during this 12-month cycle.
Dose verification in heavy-ion beams using passive dosemeter systems, e.g. thermoluminescence dosemeters (TLDs), is crucial due to the changing efficiency of the dosemeters for different ion species and linear energy transfer (LET) values. This behaviour leads to a falsification of absorbed dose that can be significant for many applications, e.g. in space or radiotherapeutic dosimetry. TLDs can only be established as a 'reference' system in heavy-ion beams or other radiation fields if the efficiency functions for all contributing ion species and LET values are provided. In the framework of a research project of the Atominstitute of the Austrian Universities irradiations with various ions were performed in the years 2001-2003 at the Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator (HIMAC) of the National Institute for Radiological Sciences (NIRS) in Chiba, Japan. Efficiency values were recorded in dependence on ion species and LET in a range from 2 to 400 keV microm(-1). The efficiencies of five different commercially available TLD materials namely TLD 600, TLD 700, TLD 700H, TLD 300 and TLD 200 were investigated.
A new method of thermoluminescence dosimetry of densely ionising radiation based on the ratio of different efficiency-LET functions of three thermoluminescent detectors (TLDs) has been developed. The applied TLD types are: MTS-7 ((7)LiF:Mg,Ti), MCP-7 ((7)LiF:Mg,Cu,P) and MTT-7 (a newly developed (7)LiF:Mg,Ti with modified activator composition and increased response to high-LET radiation). The tests of this method, performed with high-energy ion beams at the HIMAC accelerator within the ICCHIBAN project, proved that good agreement with the true dose values may be achieved even in very complicated mixed fields. The proposed method will be applied for analysis of several thousand TLDs used for the determination of organ doses in an anthropomorphic phantom orbiting outside the International Space Station within the MATROSHKA experiment.