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TOTAL LINEAR ABSORPTION COEF) JC IENTS OF VARIOUS MEDIA
FOR GAMMA RADIATION.
John A. Pierce, Jr. and Paul M. James, 6 November 1951.
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Total absorption coefficients for yimma radiation were determined
on which no pertinent dat had previously been availmaterials
four
for
able: methylecrylate, 100-octane gasoline, NT, and tritional; determined
to be 0.0696, 0.0343, 0.0924, and 0.1055 per cM, respectively. The method
(1.1 Mev) ina
employed in these determinations involved the use of Ta
gacma gun for collimation of the rays, and the subsequent application of the
exponential attenuation law, I = Ige7#*.
To vheck the accuracy of the
determinations, absorption coefficients were #150 calculated for seven other
materials on which data were already available in the literature. The
presently determined results checked closely with published data on these
seven raterials, thus indicating the accuracy of the method employed.
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RADIOLOGICAL CLOTHING MONITOR.
H. B. Martin, 27 November 19)0.
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The device described here is a clothing monitor which permits
measurement of the total radioactivity on a single garment in a single opere-
tion. It consists of a table having a copper screen top, ¢7 by 29 inches.
Irmedietely below the top are mounted five 12-inch, thin-wall G-M tubes
arranged in such a manner as to monitor the are@ completely.
A hinged lid
contairs five additional G-M tubes behind a similar protective screen, so
arranged that when the lid is closed the tubes in the two sections are
perpeniicular to each other at their approximite midsections. A scaler, a
register (recorder), and an automatic timer, together with a suitable
scurce of high-voltage current, constitute the remaining equipmert for
tke apparatus. Due to the simultaneous operution of ten teses;—the-back=-ground for the device is relatively high, this background being reducible
only at the expense of sensitivity.
For this reason, a total count of
twice background has been set as the tolerance level above which a garmert
is corsidered unwearable.
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