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    Film badge dosimeters are small portable devices that use photographic film to monitor cumulative radiation exposure through blackening of the film that is proportional to the dose. Thermo-luminescent dosimeters (TLDs) use crystals that emit light photons proportional to irradiation dose when heated, making them highly sensitive to radiation. Ionization chambers measure gamma radiation by collecting charge created by radiation interacting with gas between electrodes, generating a current proportional to dose.

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    Film badge dosimeters are small portable devices that use photographic film to monitor cumulative radiation exposure through blackening of the film that is proportional to the dose. Thermo-luminescent dosimeters (TLDs) use crystals that emit light photons proportional to irradiation dose when heated, making them highly sensitive to radiation. Ionization chambers measure gamma radiation by collecting charge created by radiation interacting with gas between electrodes, generating a current proportional to dose.

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    Film badge dosimeters are small portable devices that use photographic film to monitor cumulative radiation exposure through blackening of the film that is proportional to the dose. Thermo-luminescent dosimeters (TLDs) use crystals that emit light photons proportional to irradiation dose when heated, making them highly sensitive to radiation. Ionization chambers measure gamma radiation by collecting charge created by radiation interacting with gas between electrodes, generating a current proportional to dose.

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    Maha Mohamed Ekhlas

    Dosimetry
    Radiation dosimetry deals with the calculation of the absorbed
    dose in matter and tissue resulting from the exposure to
    indirectly and directly ionizing radiation

    Film badge dosimeters


     small portable devices for monitoring cumulative
    radiation dose due to ionizing radiation.

    Usage: The badge is typically worn on the outside of clothing,


    around the chest This location monitors exposure of most vital
    .organs

     The badge consists of two parts: photographic film, and a


    holder. In it, photographic or dental X-ray film wrapped in
    light-tight paper.
     The piece of photographic film that is the sensitive
    material and it must be removed monthly and developed
     The blackening of the film is linear to the dose, and doses
    up to about 10 Gy can be measured. The more radiation
    exposure, the more blackening of the film.

    Thermo-luminescence dosimeter(TLD)
     Thermoluminescence (TL) is a technique to measure the
    intensity of luminescence of a sample when it is irradiated
    by UV radiation, X-rays, γ-rays, or an electron beam as a
    function of temperature.
     It is the most often used for personnel dosimetry and also
    used for environmental monitoring .
     A TLD uses the radio-thermo-luminescence effect of
    irradiated crystals. It emits light photons, the number of
    which is proportional to irradiation dose when heated.
     TLDs are relatively small in size and highly sensitive to
    various radiations.

     The light output (thermo-luminescence) varies as


    dosimeters are heated.
     The variation in the light output with temperature is
    called a glow curve. The TLD processing equipment is
    programmed to detect and record the light output
    corresponding to these peaks. The magnitude of the light
    produced for a particular peak depends on the dose.
    Ionization Chambers
     Ion chambers have a good uniform response to radiation
    over a wide range of energies and are the preferred
    means of measuring high levels of gamma radiation.
     They are widely used in the nuclear power industry,
    research labs, radiography, radiobiology, and
    environmental monitoring.
     It is based on the collection of the charge created by
    interaction of radiation in the gas.
     It consists of a gas-filled chamber with two electrodes;
    known as anode and cathode. When gas between the
    electrodes is ionized by incident ionizing radiation. This
    generates an ionization current which is measured by an
    electrometer circuit.

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