Calibration of surface radioactive contamination detectors with beta and alpha radiation
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2006
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON RADIATION PHYSICS, 10th
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The Calibration Laboratory of Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares,
IPEN, has already over 35 years been calibrating instruments used in radiation
protection and therapy measurements that belongs to hospitals, industries, clinics
and other users located in São Paulo state and in other parts of Brazil.
At the present time, the Calibration Laboratory acts in the Radiation Protection,
Radiation Therapy, Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Radiology areas, using special
set-ups with gamma and beta radiation sealed sources, alpha and beta radiation
plain sources and low and intermediate energies of X radiation.
The instruments used in radiation protection measurements represent 88% of the
tested instruments by the laboratory annually (approximately 1900). About 190
instruments are used in nuclear medicine clinics to detect surface radioactive
contamination. The objective of this work is to present the results about this kind of
calibration using alpha and beta radiation.
The instruments normally used for surface contamination measurements are of
pancake type Geiger tubes with very thin mica windows (2 mg.cm-2). They usually
are sensitive to beta particles, with energies greater than 40 keV. They can also
detect energetic alpha particles and gamma-rays. However, in this case the
efficiency will be very different depending on the different radionuclides. The counting
efficiency also depends on how close to the contaminated surface the detector is
held.
Surface contamination is usually expressed in units of radioactivity per area unit
(Bq/m2
) [1]. Other units such as picocuries per 100 cm2
or disintegrations per minute
per square centimetre ae sometimes used.
Special set-ups of plain beta (90Sr + 90Y, 99Tc, 36Cl and 137Cs) and alpha (241Am)
sources were utilized. The surface emission rates varied from 406 to 1300 s-1, with
an uncertainty of 5%.
The instruments efficiencies obtained were between 0.02 to 0.45% for alpha
radiation and 0.12 to 0.58 to beta radiation.
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POTIENS, M.P.A.; COSTA, A.M.; CARVALHO, V.S.; CALDAS, L.V.E. Calibration of surface radioactive contamination detectors with beta and alpha radiation. In: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON RADIATION PHYSICS, 10th, September 17-22, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal. Abstract... Disponível em: http://repositorio.ipen.br/handle/123456789/20406. Acesso em: 30 Dec 2025.
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