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Radiation Protection Dosimetry 96:133-137 (2001)
© 2001 Oxford University Press

A Chamber for Determining the Conventionally True Value of Hp(10) and H*(10) Needed by Calibration Laboratories

U. Ankerhold, P. Ambrosi and T. Eberle

A secondary standard chamber for photon radiation developed for measuring directly the conventionally true value of the personal dose equivalent, Hp(10), in a slab phantom is now commercially available. In addition, this chamber can be used for determining the true value of the ambient dose equivalent, H*(10), in monodirectional radiation fields; for example, photon fields generated by X ray facilities. Once the chamber has been calibrated at the facility of the calibration laboratory, the true value of Hp(10) or H*(10) can be measured at other facilities without applying any conversion coefficients. For low energy photon fields the conversion coefficients are strongly dependent on the spectral distribution. For nominally the same radiation quality small spectral differences, caused, for example, by use of different X ray facilities, may lead to differences between the spectrum-averaged conversion coefficients from Ka to Hp(10) and H*(10), respectively, of up to several tens per cent. For this reason, tabulated conversion coefficients for low energy radiation fields cannot be used for calibration purposes, if the standard uncertainty is to be 2-5%. Direct measurement by the secondary standard chamber overcomes this problem.


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