Applications of some polycrystalline hydrocarbons (alanine and sugars) for high-dose measurement by ESR spectrometry

An international intercomparison on “self-calibrated” alanine EPR dosimeters

“…They are going in two directions: one is to search for more sensitive dosimetric materials and the second is to increase the accuracy of EPR quantitative measurements. Regarding the first direction, very promising results on sugar (sucrose) (Nakajima, 1988;Generalova et al, 1993;Flores et al, 2000), ammonium tartrate (Olsson et al, 1999;Olsson et al, 2000), dithionates (Bogushevich et al, 1996;Bogushevich and Ugolev, 2000;Lund et al, 2002) and formates (Lund et al, 2002;Vestad et al, 2003;Gustafsson et al, 2004) as radiation dosimeters have been published.…”

Sucrose as double-signal high-dose dosimeter for ionizing radiation

“…Tchen et al (1993) examined different binders for sucrose pellets production and determined that 40% of sucrose in an inert silicone elastomer allow to measure doses in the range 0.5-10 Gy with a standard uncertainty 74%. A possibility to use sucrose as radiation sensitive material for high-dose EPR dosimetry was investigated by Generalova et al (1993), Flores et al (2000) and Yordanov et al (2002). Nakagawa and Nishio (2000), Nakagawa et al (2008) and Karakirova et al (2008) applied sucrose to high-LET dosimetry.…”