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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on January 12, 2007
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/ncl497
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Micros 2005 Special Issue

TECHNIQUES FOR RADIATION MEASUREMENTS: MICRODOSIMETRY AND DOSIMETRY

A. J. Waker 1 *

1 University of Ontario Institute of Technology, School of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science, 2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, Ontario, L1H 7K4, Canada

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
A. J. Waker, E-mail: anthony.waker{at}uoit.ca


  Abstract

Experimental microdosimetry is concerned with the determination of radiation quality and how this can be specified in terms of the distribution of energy deposition arising from the interaction of a radiation field with a particular target site. This paper discusses various techniques that have been developed to measure radiation energy deposition over the three orders of magnitude of site-size; nanometer, micrometer and millimetre, which radiation biology suggests is required to fully account for radiation quality. Inevitably, much of the discussion will concern the use of tissue-equivalent proportional counters and variants of this device, but other technologies that have been studied, or are under development, for their potential in experimental microdosimetry are also covered. Through an examination of some of the quantities used in radiation metrology and dosimetry the natural link with microdosimetric techniques will be shown and the particular benefits of using microdosimetric methods for dosimetry illustrated.


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