Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8208562 | Applied Radiation and Isotopes | 2018 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
TLD-400 (CaF2:Mn) chips were applied for the gamma-ray dose measurement in a PMMA phantom exposed to a BNCT beam because of their very low neutron sensitivity. Since TLD-400 chips possess an adequate amount of Mn activator they have been employed in this work simultaneously for neuron activation measurement. The self-irradiation TL signals owing to the decay of the neutron induced 56Mn activity have been applied for a calibration of the TLD-400 chip in situ, where the activities were measured by an HPGe detector system and the energy deposition per disintegration of 56Mn was calculated by applying a Monte Carlo code. It was accidentally found that the irradiated TLD-400 chips were capable of emitting prominent scintillation lights owing to the induced 56Mn activity, which can easily be recorded by the TLD reader without heating and after a calibration can be used to determine the 56Mn activity.
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Authors
Wen-Chyi Tsai, Chun-Kai Huang, Shiang-Huei Jiang,