title: QA programme for radon and its short-lived progeny measuring instruments in NRPI Prague.
abstract: To subserve the institutional research and tasks coming out from the Czech National Radon Programme, a new QA programme to calibrate all the known types of devices that measure radon and its short-lived progeny was developed at the Department of Radon mobile group of the National Radiation Protection Institute (NRPI) at Prague. The programme also included calibration of instruments measuring a unique quantity of unattached and attached fractions of short- lived radon progeny Generally, NRPI declares estimation of radon concentration during all routine calibration measurements with an overall uncertainty <5% (one sigma) and of equilibrium-equivalent radon concentration with an overall uncertainty <10% (one sigma). The results of the comparative measurements of the unattached and attached fractions of each short-lived radon progeny carried out with a comparing continuous monitor Fritra 4 in the German reference radon chamber at PTB Braunschweig indicated an acceptable level of agreement, up to 10%.
authors.affiliation: National Radiation Protection Institute, Department of Radon Expert Group, Prague, Czech Republic. karel.jilek@suro.cz
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jílek
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brabec
mesh_terms: D018153:Czech Republic; D006078:Government Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards*; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards*; D011886:Radon / Q000032:analysis*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
chemical_list: D011886:Radon