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Chiyoda Technol Corporation launched Japan’s first personal radiation monitoring service in 1954 by film badge and switched to radiophotoluminescence dosimeters (RPLDs) in 2000. Based on our extensive experience and achievements in dosimetry in Japan, we sell and distribute various dosimetry systems abroad today.
Clinical Dosimetry
System
Radiotherapy is highly effective in cancer treatment. It preserves patients’ physical functions, unlike surgery, so the burden of treatment on patients is small and it can increase their quality of life. However, overly high doses adversely affect healthy tissues, while insufficient doses do not produce adequate therapeutic effects. To ensure quality radiation therapy, radiologists and medical physicists must know exactly how many doses should be delivered. DoseAce, a small clinical dosimetry system using RPLDs, accurately measures the clinical radiation dose.
Environmental
Monitoring System
In Japan, the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) requires radiation monitoring in the environment near nuclear facilities such as nuclear power plants, fuel processing and reprocessing facilities. Our environmental monitoring system can measure the cumulative dose at such facilities, and this data is used to estimate the ambient dose. Methods of measuring environmental radioactivity with RPLDs have been established by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan, where RPLDs are used in many facilities.
Personal Monitoring System
The RPLDs we use for personal radiation monitoring service in Japan gained widespread acclaim, leading to joint development of a personal monitoring system with IRSN in France in 2006 that achieved world-class measurement performance. This system has been used for many years by IRSN in France.
Neutron Dosimetry
Monitoring neutrons in unknown energy spectrums was previously a challenge because low-energy thermal neutrons and high-energy fast neutrons behave differently. But the Wide-range NeuPit System (WNP) developed by Chiyoda Technol can swiftly measure the neutrons in wide-range energy from thermal to fast neutrons.
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RPLD – Radiophotoluminescence Dosimeter
Mechanism
The detectors of RPLDs are made of silver-activated phosphate glass containing silver ions. These ions capture the electrons and holes generated by ionizing radiation and create luminescent centers that remain highly stable for years against room temperature and visible photoluminescence. Being excited by ultraviolet laser, the centers produce fluorescence proportional to the dose. This phenomenon is called radiophotoluminescence. The readouts can be repeated by stimulation of ultraviolet laser to ensure high accuracy. Only high temperature treatment resets the state of luminescent centers, namely dose information, and the glass detector can be used again*.
If the glass becomes tinted when exposed to high doses, it should be replaced.
Advantages
RPLDs can be handled at room temperature under fluorescent lamps since they are not affected by room temperature or light. Just supply them with power: no darkroom or cooling gas is required.
- Uniformity:
- Glass detectors offer excellent uniformity and do not require individual detector sensitivity correction*
- Repeatability:
- Dose readings can be repeated multiple times
- Reproducibility:
- Dose readings are highly reproducible
- Reliability:
- Fading is negligible and reliability (integrity) is high
Reader calibration is required for energy correction because it is not tissue equivalent.