학술논문

Detection of irradiated foods with the photo-stimulated luminescence technique Selection of a glass fiber filter for evaluating the performance of the PSL detectors / 光刺激ルミネッセンス技術を用いた照射食品の検知
Document Type
Journal Article
Source
食品照射 / FOOD IRRADIATION, JAPAN. 2008, 43(1-2):19
Subject
glass fiber filter
irradiated foods
paprika standard
photo-stimulated luminescence (PSL)
standard materials
Language
Japanese
ISSN
0387-1975
1884-3611
Abstract
The PSL method is useful as a screening technique of irradiated foods to support efficient uses of TL analysis. Recently, there has been the growing need for the system check or calibration using the standard materials with spread of domestically-produced PSL detector. In this research, we characterized the PSL of several types of glass fiber filters and compared the cumulate photon counts of a selected filter of them (GA-100) with those of the SUERC paprika standard for PSL measurements. GA-100 filter showed a linear relationship between cumulate photon counts and irradiation doses, and the cumulate photon counts in the first 2 months after gamma rays irradiation (261Gy) were markedly decreased and reduced to about 5000 counts (the upper threshold of PSL) after 4 months. However, further long-term storage and dose increase was necessary to produce the filters with more adequate PSL property as a standardmaterial. Light exposure (630Lux) within 3 minutes to GA-100 had little effect on the cumulate photon counts. GA-100 showed relatively less variation in cumulate photon counts compared with the paprika standard in a series of studies.