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2024/2025

Standards and metrology

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Code Completion Credits Range
16NAM ZK 2 2P+0C
Course guarantor:
Pavel Novotný
Lecturer:
Pavel Novotný
Tutor:
Supervisor:
Department of Dosimetry and Application of Ionizing Radiation
Synopsis:

Objectives and requirements of metrology, interpretation of radiation quantities and units in metrology, theoretical and experimental basis of metrology (uncertainties, relative and absolute measurements, data processing and evaluation of results of measurements, radiation etalons), evaluation of basic radiation quantities (activity, emission rate, exposure, absorbed dose), intercomparison measurements, metrology law and relevant regulations.

Requirements:

Required knowledge: radioactive decay, interactions of ionizing radiation, ionizing radiation detectors (gas-filled, scintillation, semiconductor), fundamentals of dosimetry.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. General metrology.

2. Legal metrology, units, metrology law.

3. Metrology in the Czech Republic.

4. Standardization of the activity, proportional detector, Townsend process.

5. Liquid scintillator, coincidence method.

6. Preparation of the sources.

7. Standardization of the neutron sources, Mn- bath.

8. Secondary standardization of the activity, radionuclide calibrators.

9. Data evaluation, uncertainty A and B.

10. Calorimeter as absolute method for doze, kerma and exposition measurement.

11. Standardization of the exposition and kerma, air-free chamber, cavity chamber.

12. Photon beams for secondary standardization, X-ray spectra, structure of the laboratory.

13. Measurement of the ionization current.

Syllabus of tutorials:
Study Objective:

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:

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:
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Data valid to 2025-02-18
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