RE: TLD badge dose

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

Because pocket (pencil) dosimeters do not respond well

below 40 keV, they have not been used to monitor

medical x-ray exposures.



--- John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> Were these pocket dosimeters calibrated for the

> x-ray

> spectrum associated with baggage scanning units,

> e.g.,

> 120 keV max photons and low filtration?

> 

> --- "Flanigan, Floyd" <Floyd.Flanigan@nmcco.com>

> wrote:

> > Last week I ran a bunch of direct reading

> "pencils"

> > through the x-ray machine at the security check

> > point and checked them for accrued dose. 2 mRem

> was

> > the average between 60 "pencils".

> >  





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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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