title: THE RESULTS OF THE EURADOS INTERCOMPARISON IC2014 FOR WHOLE-BODY DOSEMETERS IN PHOTON FIELDS.
abstract: The European Dosimetry Group (EURADOS) first started performing international intercomparisons for whole-body dosemeters for individual monitoring services in 1998. Since 2008, these whole-body intercomparisons have been performed on a regular basis. In this latest intercomparison (IC2014), 96 monitoring services from 35 countries (mostly European) participated with 112 dosimetry systems. Unlike in the previous intercomparisons, the whole registration, communication and data exchange process was handled by a new on-line platform. All dosemeter irradiations were carried out in the Seibersdorf accredited dosimetry laboratory. The irradiation plan consisted of nine irradiation setups with five different photon radiation qualities (S-Cs, S-Co, RQR7, W-80 and W-150) and two different angles of radiation incidence (0° and 60°). The paper describes and analyses the individual results for the personal dose equivalent quantities Hp(10) and if requested, Hp(0.07), for all participating systems and compares these results with the ISO 14146 'trumpet curve' performance criteria. The results show that 100 systems (89 % of all systems) do fulfil the general ISO 14146 performance criteria. This paper gives an overview on the performance of the participating individual monitoring services and the influence of the dosemeter type on the observed response values.
authors.affiliation: Seibersdorf Labor GmbH, Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Seibersdorf A-2444, Austria hannes.stadtmann@seibersdorf-laboratories.at.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Stadtmann
authors.affiliation: NRG, Individual Monitoringg, PO Box 9034, Arnhem 6800 ES, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: T W M
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Grimbergen
authors.affiliation: Helmholtz Zentrum München, Auswertungsstelle, Otto-Hahn-Ring 6, München D-81739, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Figel
authors.affiliation: CIEMAT, Radiation Dosimetry, Av. Complutense 40, Madrid 28040, Spain.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Romero
authors.affiliation: Cavendish Nuclear Limited, Berkeley Approved Dosimetry Service, A11 Berkeley Centre, Berkeley, Gloucestershire GL139FB, UK.
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: McWhan
authors.affiliation: Seibersdorf Labor GmbH, Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Seibersdorf A-2444, Austria.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gärtner
mesh_terms: D002138:Calibration; D003199:Computer Systems; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D049449:Luminescence; D017785:Photons; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D000072232:Radiation Dosimeters; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013819:Thermoluminescent Dosimetry / Q000379:methods; D014915:Whole-Body Counting / Q000295:instrumentation