What is radiation protection dosimetry?
Radiation Protection Dosimetry is a monthly scientific journal covering all aspects of personal and environmental dosimetry and monitoring. Being new to the world of radiation protection, I find this journal absolutely interesting. I’m seriously considering buying a multipurpose dosimeter from https://ecotestgroup.com/ website. Hope, it’ll be useful for the experiments in this field.
This may sound like an unusual question to be posed by the Editor-in-Chief, who should certainly know the answer. However, there is a bit of uncertainty associated with defining the breadth of the scope of this journal. As is often the case in the practice of dosimetry itself, difficulties often arise at the edges or extremes. As particle fluence decreases it becomes increasingly difficult to determine the difference between a small value of dose equivalent and zero. The ‘trumpet curves’(1), indicating the larger uncertainties associated with small values of dose equivalent, graphically demonstrate this situation. The amount of radiation emitted by small quantities of internally deposited radionuclides can be close to, or even be less than, the natural background radiation in the vicinity of the measurement facility. Thus, special measures, such as unusually substantial shielding of radiation detectors, are often needed. Similar problems arise at the high end of the range of quantities
