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Recent Issues in X-Band ESR Tooth Enamel Dosimetry

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Human tooth enamel is a material suitable for ESR (electron spin resonance) retrospective dosimetry. Stable radicals are created in hydroxyapatite crystals in enamel with its amount proportional to the received radiation doses. The method of ESR tooth enamel dosimetry is now established so that an ISO standard of ESR (EPR) dosimetry has been published. The outline of the method is presented in the paper where the computer programs that separate dosimetric signal from interfering native signal are essentially important for dosimetry below 5 Gy. There are still important issues on human tooth enamel dosimetry, which are to find the detection limit of the method, to define a universal standard, and to obtain the background doses to be subtracted in order to obtain the accidental doses. Other new directions of the research would be to utilize deciduous teeth and teeth of other mammals and in vivo and Q-band measurements.

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Toyoda, S. (2019). Recent Issues in X-Band ESR Tooth Enamel Dosimetry. In: Shukla, A. (eds) Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy in Medicine. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2230-3_7

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