Reaffirmed 2024

1. SCOPE

1.1 This guide provides guidance on determining the performance characteristics of dosimeters and dosimetry systems used in radiation processing.

1.2 This guide describes the influence quantities that might affect the performance of dosimeters and dosimetry systems and that should be considered during dosimeter/dosimetry system characterization.

1.3 Users of this guide are directed to existing standards and literature for procedures to determine the effects from individual influence quantities and from combinations of more thanone influence quantity.

1.4 Guidance is provided regarding the roles of the manufacturers, suppliers, and users in the characterization of dosimeters and dosimetry systems.

1.5 This guide does not address how the dosimeter/ dosimetry system characterization information is to be used in radiation processing applications or in the calibration of dosimetry systems.

NOTE 1 - For guidance on the use of dosimeter/dosimetry system characterization information for the selection and use of a dosimetry system, the user is directed to ISO/ASTM Practice 52628.

NOTE 2 - For guidance on the use of dosimeter/dosimetry system characterization information for dosimetry system calibration, the user is directed to ISO/ASTM Practice 51261.

1.6 This guide does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.

2. REFERENCES

2.1 ASTM Standards:

E170 Terminology Relating to Radiation Measurements and Dosimetry

E456 Terminology Relating to Quality and Statistics

E1026 Practice for Using the Fricke Dosimetry System

E1325 Terminology Relating to Design of Experiments

2.2 ISO/ASTM Standards:

51205 Practice for Use of a Ceric-Cerous Sulfate Dosimetry System

51261 Practice for Calibration of Routine Dosimetry Systems for Radiation Processing

51707 Guide for Estimating Uncertainties in Dosimetry for Radiation Processing

52628 Practice for Dosimetry in Radiation Processing

2.3 Joint Committee for Guides in Metrology (JCGM) Reports:

JCGM 100:2008, GUM 1995, with minor corrections, Evaluation of measurement data – Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement

JCGM 100:2008, VIM , International vocabulary of metrology – Basis and general concepts and associated terms

2.4 International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU) Reports

Report 80 Dosimetry Systems for Use in Radiation Processing

Report 85a Fundamental Quantities and Units for Ionizing Radiation