Compliance of electronic personal neutron dosemeters with the new International Standard IEC 61526.
The recommendations and test requests for the dose equivalent response of personal neutron dosemeters formulated by the new International Standard IEC 61526 are summarised. In particular, IEC 61526 allows the use of broad fields if dosemeters do not fulfil the hard requirements using monoenergetic neutrons. Some broad fields which can work as a replacement field using ISO sources (252Cf, 252Cf (D2O mod.), 241Am-Be) and simulated workplace fields (CANEL and SIGMA) are described. This work shows the results of recent measurements of the personal dose equivalent response for the dosemeters Thermo Electron EPD-N2, Aloka PDM-313 and the prototype dosemeter PTB DOS-2002, and discusses their compliance with respect to the new IEC 61526 standard.
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Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Bundesallee 100, D-38116 Braunschweig, Germany. marlies.luszik-bhadra@ptb.de
D004581:Electronics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000592:standards*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D009502:Neutrons; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000032:analysis* / Q000517:prevention & control; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000592:standards*; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000592:standards*; D012015:Reference Standards; D012062:Relative Biological Effectiveness; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity