TY - JOUR
T1 - Semi-automatic evaluation system for nuclear track detectors applied to radon measurements
AU - Amgarou, K.
AU - Font, Ll
AU - Albarracin, D.
AU - Domingo, C.
AU - Fernández, F.
AU - Baixeras, C.
PY - 2001/1/1
Y1 - 2001/1/1
N2 - A global semi-automatic evaluation system has been set up in our laboratory to scan and count etched tracks in both Makrofol-DE and LR-115 detectors. This methodology is, in principle, fully adaptable to any chemical and electrochemical etched track detector. The main advantage it offers is a considerable reduction of the counting time in comparison with the traditional methods using optical devices - microscope or microfiche reader depending on the track size - and a wide detectable range. In addition, it yields accurate, reliable and quite reproducible results. It has been used to measure the track density in both Makrofol-DE and LR-115 based radon and radon daughter detectors. A detailed description of this method is presented in this paper. Results from a comparison study between this system and ocular counting and from experimental calibration are presented as well. The correspondence between the results of the semi-automatic system and those obtained directly with ocular counting has been found to be rather good. © 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
AB - A global semi-automatic evaluation system has been set up in our laboratory to scan and count etched tracks in both Makrofol-DE and LR-115 detectors. This methodology is, in principle, fully adaptable to any chemical and electrochemical etched track detector. The main advantage it offers is a considerable reduction of the counting time in comparison with the traditional methods using optical devices - microscope or microfiche reader depending on the track size - and a wide detectable range. In addition, it yields accurate, reliable and quite reproducible results. It has been used to measure the track density in both Makrofol-DE and LR-115 based radon and radon daughter detectors. A detailed description of this method is presented in this paper. Results from a comparison study between this system and ocular counting and from experimental calibration are presented as well. The correspondence between the results of the semi-automatic system and those obtained directly with ocular counting has been found to be rather good. © 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
KW - LR-115 detector
KW - Makrofol-DE detector
KW - Semi-automatic track counting
U2 - 10.1016/S1350-4487(00)00165-7
DO - 10.1016/S1350-4487(00)00165-7
M3 - Article
SN - 1350-4487
VL - 33
SP - 203
EP - 209
JO - Radiation Measurements
JF - Radiation Measurements
IS - 2
ER -