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The standards TLDCube is measured against.
A TLD reader is only credible if its output survives an NABL ISO/IEC 17025 audit. That means proving it meets ISO 12794 for the dosimeters it reads, IEC 61066 for the reader instrument itself, and AERB SC/IR-2 for the personal-dosimetry service it feeds. Below are the six documents that define that chain, plus the review literature every teaching hospital cites when designing a TLD curriculum.
Standards framework
The six documents a compliant TLD service references.
Each anchor spans a different link in the chain — dosimeter type-test (ISO 12794), reader instrument (IEC 61066), regulatory framework (AERB), methodology (IAEA), quality management (ISO 17025). Every claim TLDCube makes about accuracy, reproducibility and calibration traceability lands against one of these.
Nuclear energy — Radiation protection — Individual thermoluminescence dosemeters for extremities and eyes
Sets the type-test framework — energy response, angular response, batch homogeneity, minimum detectable dose, environmental influence quantities — that any personal-dosimetry service must satisfy for its extremity + eye-lens TLDs.
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Thermoluminescence dosimetry systems for personal and environmental monitoring
The technical standard covering TLD reader instruments. Defines the heating cycle (linear ramp / two-step / isothermal), reader-specific calibration, background subtraction, reproducibility, and the environmental / drift tests every TLD reader used for personal monitoring must pass.
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Safety Code — Individual Monitoring for Occupational Workers
India's regulatory framework for the personal-dosimetry service that ultimately consumes the TLD reader's output. Sets the monitoring period, dose-report content, calibration-traceability chain and audit-record obligations.
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Assessment of Occupational Exposure Due to External Sources of Radiation
The methodology guide most personal-dosimetry services use when documenting their TLD workflow — dose quantities Hp(10) / Hp(0.07) / Hp(3), monitoring-programme design, and the QA cycle around the reader itself.
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Dosimetry in Diagnostic Radiology: An International Code of Practice
The IAEA code of practice that anchors the calibration + traceability chain for medical dosimetry generally. Referenced when a TLD reader is used for hot-lab QC / in-vivo secondary checks against ionisation-chamber measurements.
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General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories
The accreditation framework a personal-dosimetry service must meet in India. Defines the calibration-traceability chain, method-validation documentation, uncertainty budget and audit-trail requirements — every one of which the TLD reader's output has to survive.
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Review literature
What the field's review papers say about TLD.
Three reviews — one recent (Bhatt), one on medical applications (Rivera), and the canonical Kron 1999 — cover the case for keeping TLD in the personal-dosimetry mix alongside OSL and other passive dosimeters. Read together, they explain when a manual reader is the right tool for the job.
Thermoluminescence, optically stimulated luminescence and radiophotoluminescence dosimetry: An overall perspective
Bhatt BC
Foundational review of the three passive-dosimetry technologies. Frames where TLD sits vs OSL and RPL in the personal-dosimetry service landscape.
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Thermoluminescence in medical dosimetry
Rivera T
Review of TLD in medical dosimetry applications — in-vivo, external beam verification, radiopharmacy QC. Anchors the case for keeping a manual TLD reader alongside newer detectors.
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Applications of thermoluminescence dosimetry in medicine
Kron T
The canonical review of medical TLD applications — commissioning, in-vivo, TBI, extremity monitoring. Still the reference cited by teaching hospitals when designing a TLD-based dosimetry curriculum.
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Manufacturer background
The upstream technical brief for the reader family. Full spec + hardware notes live on the product page.
Literature Radar · auto-updated daily
Latest TLD dosimetry research
Fresh peer-reviewed papers on thermoluminescence dosimetry, auto-updated from Europe PMC + OpenAlex.
- 📖 Free full textPeer-ReviewedOpenAlexJournal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences · 2026
Characterization of commercial off-the-shelf rectifier diodes as detectors for high dose-rate gamma radiation fields
Wang Liu, Zhouxin Shen, Sheng Li
- 📖 Free full textPeer-ReviewedPubMedRadiation protection dosimetry · 2026
Assessment of occupational radiation exposure among radiology workers in Ghana using cytogenetic biomarkers and thermoluminescent dosimetry.
Owusu J, Achel DG, Kpeglo DO et al.
- 📖 Free full textPeer-ReviewedPubMedRadiation protection dosimetry · 2026
Occupational effective doses for regional and university hospitals in Albania (2021-2025): optimization and statistical analysis.
Gega E, Bylyku E, Spahiu E et al.
- 📖 Free full textPeer-ReviewedOpenAlexThe European Physical Journal Plus · 2026
Investigating the feasibility of X-ray incident angle determination using radiophotoluminescent glass dosimeter
Soheil Aghabaklooei, Hiroshi Yasuda, Hassna Bantan et al.
- 📖 Free full textPeer-ReviewedPreprint2026
Radiation dose of photon-counting CT in pediatric head examinations: an anthropomorphic phantom study
Gao Z, Liu Y, Li Y et al.