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Ba-133 Standard
Last Updated Date: 03/11/2013 The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently initiated a Cooperative Research Project (CRP) entitled “Development of … more
Automated Multi-Sample Ionization Chamber for Radioactivity Standards
Last Updated Date: 03/11/2013 NIST radioactivity standards for gamma-ray emitting radionuclides are maintained as calibration factors for an automated ionization chamber.
Photon Absorbed-Dose-to-Water Primary Standards
Last Updated Date: 03/08/2013 Computational and experimental studies to obtain correction factors for heat defect, heat transfer and scattering/perturbation for the water … more
International Comparison of Lu-177
Last Updated Date: 03/05/2013 There has been increasing interest during the past 10 years in the use of 177 Lu for radionuclide-based radiotherapy for certain types of cancers. … more
Standards for Clinical Radionuclide Calibrators
Last Updated Date: 03/05/2013 In nuclear medicine clinics, activity measurements are typically made using commercially available radionuclide calibrators which incorporate a … more
Micelle Effects in Liquid Scintillation Counting
Last Updated Date: 03/04/2013 Commercially available scintillates (often referred to by manufacturers as “cocktails”) for liquid scintillation (LS) counting … more
A Study of the Irradiation-Temperature Coefficient for Alanine Film and Pellet Dosimeters at Elevated Temperature
Last Updated Date: 03/01/2013 Correcting the response of a dosimeter for the average temperature during irradiation processing improves the accuracy of the dose … more
High-Dose Dosimetry
Last Updated Date: 03/01/2013 The activities described here support the application of high-dose, high-energy ionizing radiation for a variety of industrial processes. … more
Electron-Beam Irradiation of Solar Cells
Last Updated Date: 02/27/2013 The Dosimetry Group operates a system capable of performing electron beam processing, which consists of a Van de Graaff electron accelerator and a … more
Theoretical Dosimetry and Radiation-Transport Calculations
Last Updated Date: 02/27/2013 The fundamental photon and charged particle interaction data and the radiation transport methods, pioneered and developed at NIST to calculate the … more
Calibration of Low-Energy Photon Brachytherapy Sources
Last Updated Date: 02/27/2013 Small radioactive "seed" sources used in prostate brachytherapy, containing the radionuclide 103 Pd, 125 I, or 131 Cs, are calibrated in … more
Characterization of Dosimeters Used in Computed Tomography
Last Updated Date: 02/27/2013 In an effort to both reduce and improve the monitoring of radiation dose delivered to patients during computed tomography (CT) procedures, the … more
NIST Work in Support of the Navy Dosimetry Program
Last Updated Date: 02/27/2013 The U.S. Navy uses thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLDs) to monitor personnel for radiation exposure.
Enhanced X-Ray Imaging
Last Updated Date: 02/26/2013 This project pursues enhanced x-ray image acquisition and analysis methods that are applicable to, for example, security and medical applications … more
High-Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy
Last Updated Date: 02/26/2013 We are pursuing a program of x-ray spectroscopy of highly-charged ions and plasmas using custom-designed and constructed curved crystal … more |
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