External and Environmental Radiation Dosimetry with Optically Stimulated Luminescent Detection Device Developed at the SCK.CEN

Reinhard Boons, Mark Van Iersel, Jean Louis Genicot

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DOI: 10.4236/wjnst.2012.21002                

Abstract

The laboratory of Radiation Dosimetry and Calibration of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK.CEN) is using thermoluminescence dosimetry for more than thirty years for routine measurements and for R&D investigations. In 2002, it has developed an experimental device based on the optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) technique. This device is working with AL2O3:C crystals stimulated by the green line (488 nm) emitted by a 150 mW argon laser. This paper describes this device, its characteristics, some applications in space dosimetry and the R&D works initiated in this field during the next few years.

Keywords

External Dosimetry; OSL; Optically Stimulated Dosimetry

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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