Techniques and Management of Personnel Thermoluminescence Dosimetry Services [Hardcover]

The International Commission on Radiological Protection and the Euratom Council directive have specified that workers exposed to ionizing radiation shall be subjected to individual dose monitoring. In the past, individual doses have almost always been monitored by film badge dosimeters, but thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLDs) are now coming into widespread use, principally due to the availability of automated readout systems.
Techniques and Management of Personnel Thermoluminescence Dosimetry Services gives details of the operation of and experience gained with a number of large-scale TL personnel dosimetry services, with particular attention being paid to the management aspects of such services.
For technical and administrative personnel in TLD services, TLD system designers, staff of licensing authorities concerned with dosimetric licensing, students of radiation protection, especially in the area of protection from ionizing radiation. A basic knowledge of atomic and nuclear physics is assumed, and a training in radiation protection or health physics would be an advantage.
Based on the lectures given during the Eurocourse `Techniques and Management of Thermoluminescence Dosimetry' held at the Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, October 19--23, 1992Preface; M. Oberhofer, A. Scharmann. Radiological quantities measured and assessed in personnel dosimetry; G. Drexler. Basic concepts of thermoluminescence; A. Scharmann, M. B?hm. The design of instrumentation for the measurement of thermoluminescence; A.C. Lucas. Thermoluminescence materials and their dosimetric characteristics; D. Regulla, C.M.H. Driscoll. Thermoluminescence and personnel dosimetry: potentials and limits; E. Piesch, B. Burgkhardt. Mixed radiation field dosil£Ý