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Passive Detectors

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Advances in Radiation Protection and Dosimetry in Medicine

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In this lecture I shall interpret the term “passive” radiation detector as meaning one that will yield up its information after an irradiation is completed, and often only after some processing of the detector to obtain the data or some considerable data processing. Examples of such detectors would thus be:

  1. (1)

    Nuclear Emulsion.

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    Activation Detectors (often imprecisely referred to as threshold detectors).

  3. (3)

    Integrating Ionization Chambers.

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    Thermoluminescent Dosimeters.

“They also serve who only stand and wait” John Milton, 1608–1674, Sonnet XIX “On His Blindness”

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Thomas, R.H. (1980). Passive Detectors. In: Thomas, R.H., Perez-Mendez, V. (eds) Advances in Radiation Protection and Dosimetry in Medicine. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1715-0_11

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