Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on October 20, 2009
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/ncp229
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What is radiation protection dosimetry?
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This may sound like an unusual question to be posed by the Editor-in-Chief, who should certainly know the answer. However, there is a bit of uncertainty associated with defining the breadth of the scope of this journal. As is often the case in the practice of dosimetry itself, difficulties often arise at the edges or extremes. As particle fluence decreases it becomes increasingly difficult to determine the difference between a small value of dose equivalent and zero. The trumpet curves(1), indicating the