title: Evaluation of "criteria for film badge performance" ANSI N13.7-1972.
abstract: To determine if ANSI N13.7-1972 is a useful method to test the accuracy of film badge processors to measure radiation doses to workers in the nuclear industry, a set of exposed dose values is compared to several sets of typical, but imaginary, reported dose values. The ANSI Standard is found to be a complex procedure with no direct test for accuracy. Because of these and other limitations of the Standard, it is concluded that ANSI N13.7-1972 is unacceptable for routine testing of film badges.
mesh_terms: D005373:Film Dosimetry; D006283:Health Physics; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000592:standards*