Calibration of Tekniker-IK4 hand radiation measurement instruments

2010/09/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Teknologia
• Medikuntza

Tekniker-IK4 designs and develops a tool for the Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological Studies that will serve as a model for measuring and calibrating the radiation of X-ray devices in Spain

State-of-the-art air ionization camera designed to detect the radiation emitted by the ionization that occurs in a gas, in this case in the air. Thus, by complex calculations, one can know which radiation reaches a certain material. From there you can know its influence in the living tissue, that is, in people.

The calculation of the dose absorbed by living tissue is the basis of radiation therapy treatments, widely used in the treatment of cancer and other diseases. Calculating the dose received by the medium or people is essential to protect staff or the general public from radiation.

The first level pattern developed by Tekniker-IK4 will significantly improve the calibration of sanitary measuring instruments or radiation monitors in the industrial field.