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1st ed. |
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1 online resource (xvii, 355 pages) : illustrations |
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| Summary |
Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) has become the technique of choice for many areas of radiation dosimetry. The technique is finding widespread application in a variety of radiation dosimetry fields, including personal monitoring, environmental monitoring, retrospective dosimetry (including geological dating and accident dosimetry), space dosimetry, and many more. In this book we have attempted to synthesize the major advances in the field, covering both fundamental understanding and the many applications. The latter serve to demonstrate the success and popularity of OSL as a dosimetry method. The book is designed for researchers and radiation dosimetry practitioners alike. It delves into the detailed theory of the process from the point of view of stimulated relaxation phenomena, describing the energy storage and release processes phenomenologically and developing detailed mathematical descriptions to enable a quantitative understanding of the observed phenomena. The various stimulation modes (continuous wave, pulsed, or linear modulation) are introduced and compared. The properties of the most important synthetic OSL materials beginning with the dominant carbon-doped Al2O3, and moving through discussions of other, less-well studied but nevertheless important, or potentially important, materials. The OSL properties of the two most important natural OSL dosimetry material types, namely quartz and feldspars are discussed in depth. The applications chapters deal with the use of OSL in personal, environmental, medical and UV dosimetry, geological dating and retrospective dosimetry (accident dosimetry and dating). Finally the developments in instrumentation that have occurred over the past decade or more are described. The book will find use in those laboratories within academia, national institutes and the private sector where research and applications in radiation dosimetry using luminescence are being conducted. Potential readers include personnel involved in radiation protection practice and research, hospitals, nuclear power stations, radiation clean-up and remediation, food irradiation and materials processing, security monitoring, geological and archaeological dating, luminescence studies of minerals, etc. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Optically stimulated luminescence -- 1.2 Historical development of OSL dosimetry -- 1.3 OSL dosimetry -- 1.4 This book -- Chapter 2. Optically Stimulated Luminescence Theory -- 2.1 Stimulated luminescence -- 2.2 Generalised mathematical description of optically stimulated luminescence -- 2.3 The photoionisation cross-section -- 2.4 CW-OSL -- 2.5 LM-OSL -- 2.6 Pulsed OSL -- 2.7 Phototransferred effects -- 2.8 Radiophotoluminescence -- Chapter 3. OSL Properties of Synthetic Materials -- 3.1 Al2O3:C -- 3.2 Halides -- 3.3 Sulphates -- 3.4 Sulphides -- 3.5 Oxides -- Chapter 4. Passive Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dosimetry -- 4.1 Personal dosimetry -- 4.2 Environmental OSL dosimetry using Al2O3:C -- 4.3 UV dosimetry -- 4.4 OSL and RL remote optical fibre dosimetry in medical applications -- Chapter 5. OSL Properties of Natural Materials -- 5.1 Quartz -- 5.2 Feldspars -- 5.3 Conclusions -- Chapter 6. Retrospective OSL Dosimetry -- Part I: Retrospective Accident Dosimetry -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Materials and sampling -- 6.3 Sample preparation and experimental details -- 6.4 Determination of the accident dose -- 6.5 Analytical protocols -- 6.6 Evaluation of dose-depth profiles in bricks -- 6.7 Retrospective OSL dosimetry using unheated quartz -- 6.8 Retrospective OSL dosimetry using household and workplace chemicals -- 6.9 Retrospective OSL dosimetry using porcelain -- 6.10 Retrospective accident dosimetry--conclusions -- Part II: Geological and Archaeological Dating -- 6.11 Measurement procedures -- 6.12 Single grains -- 6.13 Geological and archaeological dating-conclusions -- Chapter 7. OSL Measurement Technology -- 7.1 Stimulation modes -- 7.2 The light detection system -- 7.3 Automated OSL readers -- 7.4 Development of optical stimulation sources -- 7.5 Wavelength resolved OSL -- 7.6 Imaging systems -- 7.7 Single grain OSL systems -- 7.8 OSL scanners -- 7.9 Portable systems for OSL measurements in the field -- 7.10 The measurement of RL -- 7.11 Commercially available OSL apparatus -- 7.12 Future developments -- Subject Index -- Last Page. |
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English. |
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Radiation dosimetry.
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Luminescence.
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Optical radiometry.
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Radiometry |
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Luminescence |
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Dosimétrie.
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Luminescence.
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Radiométrie optique.
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dosimetry.
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luminescence.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Nuclear.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Atomic & Molecular.
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Luminescence
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Optical radiometry
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Radiation dosimetry
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Luminescência.
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Dosimetria.
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| Added Author |
McKeever, S. W. S., 1950-
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Wintle, A. G.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bøtter-Jensen, L. Optically stimulated luminescence dosimetry. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; Boston ; London : Elsevier, 2003 0444506845 9780444506849 (DLC) 2004267105 (OCoLC)52696099 |
| ISBN |
9780080538075 (electronic bk.) |
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008053807X (electronic bk.) |
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1281036285 |
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9781281036285 |
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9786611036287 |
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6611036288 |
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9780444506849 |
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0444506845 |
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AU@ 000048130687 |
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DEBBG BV042311032 |
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DEBSZ 277493528 |
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NZ1 12432798 |
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NZ1 15193756 |
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UKMGB 017584850 |
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AU@ 000072977104 |
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