Mayer Sabine, Boschung Markus, Butterweck Gernot, Assenmacher Frank, Hohmann Eike
Paul Scherrer Institute, Division for Radiation Safety and Security, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
Paul Scherrer Institute, Division for Radiation Safety and Security, Villigen PSI, Switzerland.
Radiat Prot Dosimetry. 2016 Sep;170(1-4):154-7. doi: 10.1093/rpd/ncv408. Epub 2015 Sep 22.
Since 2008 the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) has been using a microscope-based automatic scanning system for assessing personal neutron doses with a dosemeter based on PADC. This scanning system, known as TASLImage, includes a comprehensive characterisation of tracks. The distributions of several specific track characteristics such as size, shape and optical density are compared with a reference set to discriminate tracks of alpha particles and non-track background. Due to the dosemeter design at PSI, it is anticipated that radon should not significantly contribute to the creation of additional tracks in the PADC detector. The present study tests the stability of the neutron dose determination algorithm of the personal neutron dosemeter system in operation at PSI at different radon gas exposures.