BS ISO 29661 - REFERENCE RADIATION FIELDS FOR RADIATION PROTECTION - DEFINITIONS AND FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS

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Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
  3.1 General
  3.2 Quantities and conversion coefficients
4 Symbols and abbreviated terms
5 Application of the measurement quantities and units
  5.1 Measurement quantities for area monitoring
  5.2 Measurement quantities for individual monitoring
  5.3 Units
  5.4 Establishing of the measurement quantities for area
      and individual monitoring
6 Calibration and determination of the response in
  reference radiation fields
  6.1 General principles
      6.1.1 Detector assembly
      6.1.2 Point of test and reference point
      6.1.3 Conditions of the detector assembly
            under test
      6.1.4 Reference conditions and standard
            test conditions
      6.1.5 Axes of rotation
  6.2 Calibration in reference radiation fields
      6.2.1 General
      6.2.2 Description of the calibration coefficient
            function
  6.3 Determination of the response in reference
      radiation fields
  6.4 Methods for performing the calibration and
      determining the response
      6.4.1 Procedures
      6.4.2 Sequential irradiation of secondary standard
            and detector assembly
      6.4.3 Simultaneous irradiation of secondary
            standard and detector assembly
      6.4.4 Calibration and determination of the response
            using a reference radionuclide source
      6.4.5 Calibration and determination of the response
            using a calibrated monitor device
  6.5 Special considerations for area dosemeters
      (area survey instruments)
      6.5.1 Reference point and reference direction
      6.5.2 Irradiation conditions
  6.6 Special considerations for personal dosemeters
      6.6.1 General
      6.6.2 Phantoms
      6.6.3 Reference direction and reference point
      6.6.4 Irradiation conditions
      6.6.5 Simultaneous irradiation of several dosemeters
7 Uncertainty
8 Certificates
Annex A (normative) - Additional information
  A.1 List of reference conditions and standard test conditions
Bibliography

Committee	NCE/2
DocumentType	Draft
Pages	42
PublisherName	British Standards Institution
Status	Current

ISO/IEC 17025:2005	General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories
IEC 60846-1:2009	Radiation protection instrumentation - Ambient and/or directional dose equivalent (rate) meters and/or monitors for beta, X and gamma radiation - Part 1: Portable workplace and environmental meters and monitors
ISO/IEC Guide 99:2007	International vocabulary of metrology Basic and general concepts and associated terms (VIM)
IEC 61526:2010	Radiation protection instrumentation - Measurement of personal dose equivalents Hp(10) and Hp(0,07) for X, gamma, neutron and beta radiations - Direct reading personal dose equivalent meters