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Ivan Eufrázio de Santana1, Maysa Costa Castro1, Viviane Khoury1
1Departamento de Energia Nuclear (DEN), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil.
Abstract:
The International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU) and the International Commission on Radiological Protection have jointly published a report recommending new operational quantities (OQs) for radiological protection. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of the introduction of this new quantity on the response of 19 commercially available survey meters equipped with geiger mu¨ller tubes and 2 survey meters equipped with ionisation chambers. The energy response was evaluated for x-ray beam qualities defined by International Organization for Standardization (N-30 to N-200). The results strongly depend on model of the survey meter. Some survey meters showed a similar energy dependence for the new ICRU 95 operational quantityH* compared to the current operational quantityH*(10). These survey meters may be adapted to the new OQs requiring only a simple recalibration. However, in some cases, the introduction of the new operational quantity showed the need to physically modify the survey meter by, for example, the introduction of lead filtration.
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