A. Del Gratta

Development of anthropomorphic hand phantoms for personal dosimetry in 90Y-Zevalin preparation and patient delivering

Anthropomorphic tissue-equivalent hand phantoms were achieved to measure the extremity dose involved in Zevalin (90)Y-labelling and patient delivering procedure for radioimmunotherapy treatment of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The extremity doses to hands and wrists of operators were measured by using thermoluminescent detectors mounted on the developed phantoms. Measurements of chest- and lens-equivalent doses performed on a Rando phantom are also reported.

Performance of a radon sensor based on a BJT detector on high-resistivity silicon

An autonomous Radon sensor with wireless connectivity has been developed, using a BJT detector on high-resistivity silicon as alpha-particle detector. Charged Radon daughters are collected on the detector surface electrostatically. Thanks to the BJT internal amplification, real-time alpha particle detection is made possible using a very simple readout electronics which records alpha-particle arrival time and charge. Functional tests at known Radon concentrations demonstrated a sensitivity up to 4.9 cph/(100 Bq/m3), which translates into the capability of detecting a Radon concentration of 200±20 Bq/m3 and 500±50 Bq/m3 after 10 and 4 h, respectively. The count rate at nominally-zero Radon concentration was 0.05 cph.