Dosimetry has come a long way since I was actively considered occupationally exposed, and even further from the times when very little was known about the effects of radiation on living tissue.

The IAEA, together with the World Health Organization, offers dose audit services to cancer clinics to help them improve dosimetry practices. Safe and effective radiotherapy relies to a large extent ...

A dosimetry-driven treatment-planning approach to RPT translates into accounting for patient-specific pharmacokinetic and tumour and normal organ radioactivity localization differences by imaging.

Film badges remain an economical dosimetry instrument, but are have been largely replaced by TLDs. The film emulsion contains silver bromide, therefore resulting in a higher atomic number on the film ...