Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) has become the technique of
choice for many areas of radiation dosimetry. The technique is
finding widespread application in a variety of radiation dosimetry
fields, including personal monitoring, environmental monitoring,
retrospective dosimetry (including geological dating and accident
dosimetry), space dosimetry, and many more. In this book we have
attempted to synthesize the major advances in the field, covering
both fundamental understanding and the many applications. The
latter serve to demonstrate the success and popularity of OSL as a
dosimetry method.
The book is designed for researchers and radiation dosimetry
practitioners alike. It delves into the detailed theory of the
process from the point of view of stimulated relaxation phenomena,
describing the energy storage and release processes
phenomenologically and developing detailed mathematical
descriptions to enable a quantitative understanding of the observed
phenomena. The various stimulation modes (continuous wave, pulsed,
or linear modulation) are introduced and compared. The properties
of the most important synthetic OSL materials beginning with the
dominant carbon-doped Al2O3, and moving through discussions of
other, less-well studied but nevertheless important, or potentially
important, materials. The OSL properties of the two most important
natural OSL dosimetry material types, namely quartz and feldspars
are discussed in depth. The applications chapters deal with the use
of OSL in personal, environmental, medical and UV dosimetry,
geological dating and retrospective dosimetry (accident dosimetry
and dating). Finally the developments in instrumentation that have
occurred over the past decade or more are described.
The book will find use in those laboratories within academia,
national institutes and the private sector where research and
applications in radiation dosimetry using luminescence are being
conducted. Potential readers include personnel involved in
radiation protection practice and research, hospitals, nuclear
power stations, radiation clean-up and remediation, food
irradiation and materials processing, security monitoring,
geological and archaeological dating, luminescence studies of
minerals, etc.
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