Basic considerations on the significance of personnel dosimeters are discussed, followed by an analytic examination of the factors that affect the precision and accuracy of the dose measurements. The factors are classified into the four categories of: (1) theoretical characteristics based upon the dose measuring principles, (2) quality control techniques applied to the detector elements and measuring instruments, (3) techniques of pre-, and/or post-irradiation treatments, (4) techniques of normalization against dose standards.
Using the national exposure standards issued by ETL, four kinds of personnel dosimeters currently used in Japan (Film-Badge, Pocket Dosimeter, Glass Dosimeter and Thermoluminescence Dosimeter) were inspected. The results obtained are presented with reference to (1) systematically and objectively reconsidered theoretical characteristics such as the energy response, and (2) data indicating the level of reliability of personnel dose monitoring systems available today in Japan.
The results reveal that the reliability is largely dependent on the suitability of the monitoring system for securing good traceability against the dose standards, and on proper post-irradiation treatment. It is concluded that among the four kinds of dosimeters, the film badge system appears to be sometimes most doubtful in accuracy.
In view of the increasing importance of measurements of geneticaly significant dose, medically considered scattering radiation dose, and environmental radiation dose, the reliability of the available personnel dose measurements would appear to call for improvement the world over.
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