Simulations of thermally transferred OSL signals in quartz: Accuracy and precision of the protocols for equivalent dose evaluation

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 269, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1431-1443

  Pagonis, Vasilis ^a   Adamiec, Grzegorz ^b   Athanassas, C ^c   Chen, Reuven ^d   Baker, Atlee ^a   Larsen, Meredith ^a   Thompson, Zachary ^a  

^a MCDANIEL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Accident dosimetry; Authenticity testing; Equivalent dose estimation; Kinetic rate equations; Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL); Quartz; Retrospective dosimetry; SAR technique; Thermoluminescence (TL); TT OSL

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT DOSIMETRY; AUTHENTICITY TESTING; EQUIVALENT DOSE ESTIMATION; KINETIC RATE EQUATIONS; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; RETROSPECTIVE DOSIMETRY; SAR TECHNIQUES; TT-OSL;

DOSIMETRY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUARTZ; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 79955516887     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2011.03.026     Document Type: Article

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