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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on April 27, 2006
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2006 119(1-4):15-22; doi:10.1093/rpd/nci611
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On the relationship between dose-, energy- and LET-response of thermoluminescent detectors

P. Olko1,*, P. Bilski1, N. A. El-Faramawy2, H. Y. Göksu2, J. L. Kim3, R. Kopec1 and M. P. R. Waligórski1,4

1 Institute of Nuclear Physics (IFJ), Kraków, Poland
2 Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit (GSF), Neuherberg, Germany
3 Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), Dejoan, Korea
4 Centre of Oncology (COOK), Krakow, Poland

* Corresponding author: Pawel.Olko{at}ifj.edu.pl

Measurements of the response of thermoluminescent (TL) detectors after gamma ray doses high enough to observe signal saturation provide input to microdosimetric models which relate this gamma-ray response with the energy response after low doses of photons (gamma rays and low-energy X rays) and after high-LET irradiation. To measure their gamma ray response up to saturation, LiF:Mg,Ti (MTS-7 and MTT), LiF:Mg,Cu,P (MCP-7), CaSO4:Dy (KCD) and Al2O3:C detectors were irradiated with 60Co gamma rays over the range 1–5000 Gy. The X-ray photon energy response and TL efficiency (relative to gamma rays) after doses of beta rays and alpha particles, were also measured, for CaSO4:Dy and for Al2O3:C. Microdosimetric and track structure modelling was then applied to the experimental data. In a manner similar to LiF:Mg,Cu,P, the experimentally observed under response of {alpha}-Al2O3:C to X rays <100 keV, compared with cross-section calculations, is explained as a microdosimetric effect caused by the saturation of response of this detector without prior supralinearity (saturation of traps along the tracks). The enhanced X-ray photon energy response of CaSO4:Dy is related to the supralinearity observed in this material after high gamma ray doses, similarly to that in LiF:Mg,Ti. The discussed model approaches support the general rule relating dose-, energy- and ionisation density-responses in TL detectors: if their gamma ray response is sublinear prior to saturation, the measured photon energy response is lower, and if it is supralinear, it may be higher than that expected from the calculation of the interaction cross sections alone. Since similar rules have been found to apply to other solid-state detector systems, microdosimetry may offer a valuable contribution to solid-state dosimetry even prior to mechanistic explanations of physical phenomena in different TL detectors.


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