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Re: on-topic vs. off-topic, and x-ray calibration
could you specify what type of analytical equipment, such an electron
microscope? On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, M. Woo wrote:
> So this is what happens when I'm out sick for a day and spend the next day out
> of the office doing HP stuff. I knew I should have bought a cellular modem.
> <grin>
>
> We're all adults and professionals here, so I would hope that we'd be capable of
> determining what is directly relevant to the discussion of radiation protection
> as opposed to topics which have a tenuous link to the field and would be far
> more appropriate discussed either privately or in another forum.
>
> Just a comment though... if there is some question as to whether a particular
> subject is off-topic, chances are that it *is* off-topic. Also, I might point
> out that discussion of whether or not a subject is off-topic could be considered
> off-topic.
>
> RADSAFE now has more than 1500 subscribers. Any time that you post publicly,
> ask yourself whether or not you really want 1500 of your colleagues to see your
> post.
>
> So, that said...
>
> Are there any "standards" or whatever for calibration of ionization chambers
> which are intended only to survey for leakage around analytical x-ray devices?
> Or does checking for x-ray leakage at such low average energies have little
> meaning? Is calibrating to certain NIST beam quality codes for surveys of
> non-medical x-ray devices useful at all?
>
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> Melissa Woo, Health Physicist | m-woo@uiuc.edu
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | office 1.217.244.7233
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DAN L. MARX
HEALTH PHYSICIST
BAKER COLLEGE
FLINT MI
dmarx01@baker.edu
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