Skip Navigation


Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on June 1, 2009
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2009 135(3):149-153; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncp099
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
135/3/149    most recent
ncp099v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Ankerhold, U.
Right arrow Articles by Ambrosi, P.
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Ankerhold, U.
Right arrow Articles by Ambrosi, P.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Published by Oxford University Press 2009. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Deficiencies of active electronic radiation protection dosemeters in pulsed fields

U. Ankerhold*, O. Hupe and P. Ambrosi

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Bundesallee 100, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany

* Corresponding author: ulrike.ankerhold{at}ptb.de

Received March 18, 2009, accepted April 29, 2009

Nowadays nearly all radiation fields used for X-ray diagnostics are pulsed. These fields are characterised by a high dose rate during the pulse and a short pulse duration in the range of a few milliseconds. The use of active electronic dosemeters has increased in the past few years, but these types of dosemeters might possibly not measure reliably in pulsed radiation fields. Not only personal dosemeters but also area dosemeters that are used mainly for dose rate measurements are concerned. These cannot be substituted by using passive dosemeter types. The characteristics of active electronic dosemeters determined in a continuous radiation field cannot be transferred to those in pulsed fields. Some provisional measurements with typical electronic dosemeters in pulsed radiation fields are presented to reveal this basic problem.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.