RE: More Funky Stuff From Landauer in March

[webber@micf.nist.gov (W.R.Webber)]

Now that there is talk of moving from TLDs to electronic dosimeters (with
TLD backup), maybe a better choice would be film as the backup device.

>Call me a dinosaur, but the chance for strange readins on a
>dosimeter is what has stopped us from going over to TLDs.
>You can always have someone look at a strip of film to
>see if it appears that something is funky.  One gets
>less info about directionality and/or contamination
>from TLDs,  and you lose the sharp absorber pattern
>indicating a one shot exposure in a fixed geometry
>that would show that either the person got it from an
>xray or that they were not wearing it when it was exposed.
>
>Dale Boyce
>dale@radpro.uchicago.edu
>
William R. Webber, Health Physicist ( Warp Factor OS/2)
The opions expressed above are those of the author alone and do not
represent those of the National Institute of Standards and Technology nor
the US Department of Commerce.
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