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Keiichi Nakagawa, Kiyoshi Yoda, Takashi Shiraki, Katsutake Sasaki, Masanori Miyazawa, Tatsuyo Ishidoya, Kuni Ohtomo, Minoru Hamada, Radiophotoluminescence dosimetry using a small spherical glass: a preliminary phantom study, Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Volume 123, Issue 2, February 2007, Pages 254–256, https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncl140
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Abstract
A radiophotoluminescence dosimetry has been proposed using a spherical silver-activated phosphate glass with a diameter of 1.5 mm. A 6 MV photon dose of 2 Sv (2 Gy) was delivered to 14 spherical glass samples placed between two solid water phantoms at a depth of 10 cm. The samples were positioned within a 20 × 20 mm2 centred at beam axis to ensure uniform dose absorption. A normalised output from a read-out system was obtained by simultaneously measuring luminescence from a non-irradiated reference and that from an irradiated reference to eliminate background contamination and time-varying fluctuation of the readout system, leading to a normalised standard deviation of 1.8%. A dose up to 3.5 Sv (3.5 Gy) was delivered to three spherical glass samples positioned between two solid water phantoms at a depth of 10 cm. The normalised output increased linearly with the applied dose.