A miniature fluoroglass dosimeter has recently been described as a usful and a reliable radiation detector for a variety of clinical dosimetry problems, especially in vivo dosimetry. Its use is based upon the principle of radiophoto luminescence.
Previous to the glass rod dosimetry, the out put of cobalt-60 teletherapy unit is calibrated using a home-made parallel plate ionization chamber with a vibrating reed electrometer.
The glass rod employed is 1 mm, in diameter and 6 mm, in overall length. Some physical characteristics on the dosimeter with respects to the linearity between dose and fluorescence, the fading of fluorescence by rod and the fatigue of a photomultiplier tube and a ultra violet lamp etc, are examined to determine a reliable method for measurements with glass dosimeter.
Gamma-ray dose from cobalt-60 teletherapy unit over the total dose ranges of 100 to 800 R and of 1, 000 to 10, 000R is measured with the glass dosimeter.Ninty-five per cent confidence intervals of the mean of population will be estimated 124 to 128 μA for 100 R exposure and 608 to 628μA for 500 R. Ninty-five per cent confidence intervals of the coefficients of variation will be estimated 3. 8% >σ>1. 8% for 100 R exposure and 4.6>σ >2.1% for 500 R.
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