A personal radon dosemeter

Stephan Oberstedt; Hans Vanmarcke

A personal radon dosemeter

Stephan Oberstedt
, Hans Vanmarcke

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Abstract

In the last decade the radon isuue has become one of the major problems of radiation protection. Animal studies as well as epidemological studies showed an increades lung cancer risk. A new personal radon-dosemeter on the basis of a CR-39 ( polyallyl digycol carbonate) track-etch detector has been developed. The read-out of the detector is based on the image-processing technique. The actual efficiency of the new dosemeter, obtained with semi-automatic personal-computer based image-analysis system, is 1.43 +- 0.15 tracks/cm²/(kBq/m³h), which is about three times that of the widely used Karlsruhe-type detector based on polycarbonate detectors.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Mol, Belgium
Publisher	SCK CEN
Number of pages	17
State	Published - 1994

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Name	SCK•CEN Reports
Publisher	Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie
No.	BLG-649

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