[en] Methods for measuring the current and charge from the anode signal of the photomultiplier began with the introduction of commercial electrometers and presently involve unlimited capability in preserving the option of current and charge measurement. Wide dynamic range recording has eliminated off-scale readings which were common in earlier days. Further, access to stored glow curves provides analytic capability which is often useful in verifying exposures. Complex badges having two or more elements are now quite common. The complexity of the badges could very well increase in the future as the requirement for implementing the newer ICRU quantities becomes more widespread. The advent of mass produced, stable, hypersensitive materials is expected to result in some changes in optical and electronic systems. New hope exists that high performance yet economical instruments might be made available for the developing countries by this route. Such instruments could be of value in supporting programmes to improve health care by way of nuclear medicine, radiation therapy, and X ray diagnosis. Data are presented showing the potential for design and construction of such instruments. (author)

[en] The author emphatically discusses the special situations, such as high dose rate, high dose, high energy, low energy and so on, which experimenters always meet while using TLD to measure radiation dose on nuclear simulation, and the adopted measures to solve the problems coming from it

[en] This paper describes the work of two working groups which are preparing international standards on thermoluminescence dosimeters (TLD) and TLD readers, respectively. (orig.)

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[en] The development of TLD readers was introduced. The disadvantages existed in current automatic TLD readers were analyzed. The design of TLD reader with rotary disk was suggested. (authors)

[en] The procedure is described of the manufacture of the effective component of a dosemeter for the detection of ionizing radiation. An electrical resistance wire or strip is passed at a speed of at least 0.1 mm/s through a glass melt at a temperature of at least 100 degC above the melting point of the corresponding glass. The thus produced glass fibre containing the axially embedded wire or strip is continuously cooled on being drawn out of the glass melt, e.g., by passing through one or more sequential air regions with a gradually falling temperature. (J.K.)

[en] The performance of the dosimeter is compared with current CEC recommendations. It is shown that the dosimeter meets, and often greatly exceeds, these recommendations. (orig.)

[en] Experimental testing of the GSF Albedo dosimeter. The common technique used for the measurement of neutron dose equivalent utilized today in personnel monitoring is the Albedo dosimetry. Various designs of Albedo dosimeter are available commercially. This work deals with the testing of the GFS Albedo dosimeter design by means of TLD-600 and TLD-700 detector pairs. The proton angular response of this Albedo design, as well as the Am-Be neutron angular response, are presented. (author). 8 figs, 7 refs

[en] The kinetics model is used to study the effects of heating rate on nonlinearity of dose response in thermoluminescence. The expression of dose response to heating rate is deduced based on second order kinetics model. The derived heating rate dependent nonlinearity of dose response is shown to be in agreement with experimental results

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