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M. Ginjaume, X. Ortega, M. A. Duch, Implementing New Recommendations for Calibrating Personal Dosemeters, Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Volume 96, Issue 1-3, 1 July 2001, Pages 93–97, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006615
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Abstract
This paper analyses the differences between the calibration procedures for personal dosemeters recommended by ICRU 47 and ISO 4037-3. The tissue equivalence of the PMMA and the ISO water slab phantoms are analysed by means of the Penelope Monte Carlo code for monoenergetic and filtered X ray photon beams and compared with the results of two other independent codes. The influence of the calibration method is also verified experimentally, both on a thermoluminescence and an electronic personal dosemeter. Good consistency between both calibration procedures is shown provided that a correction factor for backscatter differences between the PMMA and the ICRU phantom is introduced. The Monte Carlo simulation is used to determine this correction to a greater accuracy.