학술논문

Personal Dosimetry in Continuous Photon Radiation Fields With the Dosepix Detector
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on. 68(5):1129-1134 May, 2021
Subject
Nuclear Engineering
Bioengineering
Detectors
Photonics
Dosimetry
Uncertainty
Aluminum
ISO Standards
Phantoms
Active personal dosimetry
dosimetry with ionizing radiation
hybrid pixel detector
Language
ISSN
0018-9499
1558-1578
Abstract
First measurements characterizing dosimetric properties of a dosimetry system designed for the purpose of active personal dosimetry for photons with mean energies from 12.4 to 1250 keV according to Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) requirements are presented. The system consists of three Dosepix detectors, which is a hybrid, pixelated, photon-counting X-ray detector. The energy and angular dependence of the normalized response and the coefficients of variation of the personal dose equivalents $H_{\mathrm{p}}{(10)}$ and $H_{\mathrm{p}}{(0.07)}$ are determined on an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) water slab phantom in continuous reference photon radiation fields according to ISO 4037-1 and ISO 4037-3. The energy response is presented for the narrow spectra N-15 to N-300 and the radiation qualities S-Cs and S-Co for angles of incidence of 0°, 30°, and ±60°. The highest deviation of the response from the reference response is found at N-60, −60° with 1.179 ± 0.007 (standard deviation) for $H_{\mathrm{p}}{(10)}$ . The energy range of use for $H_{\mathrm{p}}{(10)}$ is expected to extend from 12.4 to 1250 keV. For the personal dose equivalent $H_{\mathrm{p}}{(0.07)}$ , the normalized response at ±60° is below the lower limit for N-15, N-20, and N-25. It results in an energy range of use from 24.6 to 1250 keV. The coefficient of variation increases with increasing photon energy and stays below 1% for all measurements.