Metrology of Ionizing Radiation
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16MEIZ | Z,ZK | 4 | 2+1 |
- Course guarantor:
- Tomáš Trojek
- Lecturer:
- Pavel Novotný
- Tutor:
- Pavel Novotný
- Supervisor:
- Department of Dosimetry and Application of Ionizing Radiation
- Synopsis:
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The course introduces students to the metrology, including its legislative framework. Fundamental and general concepts of the field (calibration, verification, legally controlled measuring instruments, measuring standards, measurement accuracy) are explained. Further, the methods of atomic and nuclear physics quantities determination (activity, source emission, radiation exposure, absorbed dose) are discussed in detail.
- Requirements:
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Required knowledge: radioactive decay, interactions of ionizing radiation, ionizing radiation detectors (gas-filled, scintillation, semiconductor), fundamentals of dosimetry.
- Syllabus of lectures:
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1. Fundamentals of metrology
2. Introduction to legal metrology, act and decrees, measurement standards, legally controlled measuring instruments, metrological traceability chain
3. International System of Units, quantities and units of atomic and nuclear physics
4. Data evaluation, measurement accuracy, measurement errors and uncertainties
5. Applications of proportional counter in radionuclide metrology, sample preparation for absolute measurement
6. Coincidence method for determination of activity
7. Internal counting, liquid scintillators, TDCR
8. Electrostatic and calorimetric method of activity measurement
9. Secondary standardization of activity, gamma spectrometry, ionization chambers in current mode
10. Neutron metrology, manganese bath method
11. Radiation exposure standardization, free-air ionization chamber
12. Dose and kerma standardization, calorimetric method, cavity ionization chamber
13. Small current measurement, electrometers, compensation method of measurement
- Syllabus of tutorials:
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1. Measurement uncertainties
2. Verification and calibration of measuring instruments
3. Manganese bath
4. Detection limits
- Study Objective:
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Knowledge:
Fundamental concepts and legislative framework of metrology, quantities and units used in ionizing radiation metrology, primary and secondary methods of standardization.
Abilities:
Measured data processing, evaluation of measurement uncertainties, calibration of a measuring instrument.
- Study materials:
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Key references:
[1] L'Annunziata , M. F. (ed.). Handbook of radioactivity analysis. 3rd ed. Oxford: Elsevier, 2012. ISBN 978-0-12-384873-4.
[2] Act No. 505/1990 Coll. on Metrology as later amended and related MPO decrees.
Recommended references:
[3] Howarth P. (ed.). Metrology in short. Online. 3rd ed. EURAMET, 2008. Available from https://www.euramet.org/publications-media-centre/documents/metrology-in-short.
- Note:
- Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:
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06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri - Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:
- Time-table is not available yet
- The course is a part of the following study plans: