Radiochromic dosimetry for validation and commissioning of industrial radiation processes

Abstract

Radiochromic dosimeters in various forms, thin films, coated films and papers, optical waveguides, liquid solutions, and small pellets, serve as useful dosimeters for many radiation processing applications. While they cover wide dose ranges (10 0 – 10 6 Gy) as routine dosimeters, if properly calibrated and controlled, they also may be used accurately and reproducibly for dose mapping, dose setting, and process commissioning procedures, as well as for transfer calibration of other routine dosimeters in photon and electron radiation fields.