Preliminary study of a gamma-ray telescope relevant to neutron personnel dosimetry

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:5018045

Attix, F H; Niroomand-Rad, A; DeLuca, Jr, P M; Lopez, F; Pearson, D W; Paliwal, B R

The objective was to use a gamma-ray dosemeter worn on the body to measure the neutron dose equivalent in the energy range <10 keV. It has been shown for cobalt 60 gamma rays that the reading of a 0.4 mm-thick LiF thermoluminescent dosemeter is only about half as large if irradiated just behind a Pb layer as if irradiated just in front of it. This report examines the possibility of using the ratio of TLD readings from dosemeters on opposite sides of a Pb filter as a measure of the relative dose contributions of gamma rays travelling in opposite directions. (ACR)

• Research Organization: Wisconsin Univ., Madison (USA). Dept. of Medical Physics
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76EV01105
• OSTI ID: 5018045
• Report Number(s): DOE/EV/01105-289; ON: DE82019976
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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GAMMA DOSIMETRY
HADRON REACTIONS
KEV RANGE
KEV RANGE 01-10
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NUCLEAR REACTIONS
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PHANTOMS
STRUCTURAL MODELS
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