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A formalism for the absorbed dose evaluation of the glass dosimeter

  • Ka-Young Park (Department of Physics, Inha University) ;
  • Hyun-Chul Kim (Department of Physics, Inha University) ;
  • Byoung-Chul Kim (Ionizing Radiation Metrology Group, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science)
  • Received : 2023.01.26
  • Accepted : 2023.05.18
  • Published : 2023.06.25
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Abstract

We propose in the present work how the reference glass dosimeters can be introduced, which reflects the user irradiation condition. The reference glass dosimeters are used for correcting the reader fluctuation by reading it with sample glass dosimeters at the same time. Since they can be used without annealing after irradiation for long periods, one should consider both the fading effect and the natural background dose accumulation quantitatively. We construct an empirical but practical formalism of evaluating the absorbed dose on the glass dosimeter with the fading effect and the natural background dose accumulation considered.

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The present work is supported by Inha University Grant in 2023.

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