EPR dosimetric properties of different window glasses

Comparison of three methods of EPR retrospective dosimetry in watch glass

“…Materials that come into close contact with humans, such as the screen of a mobile phone or the glass of a watch, are particularly attractive. They have many advantages for potential retrospective dosimetry, such as widespread availability, resistance to water, chemical inertness ( 10 , 15 , 16 ) and non-invasive sampling. However, the reliability of EPR dosimetry in glass requires consideration of several major confounding factors.…”

“…Annealing of irradiated glass samples at high temperatures (above 200 °C) in order to recover their BG signal by elimination of the dosimetric component (RIS) have already been proposed by various researchers in: watch glass ( 17 ), window glass ( 16 , 18 , 19 ), bioactive glass (Bio-G) ( 20 ), fused quartz ( 21 ), glass test tubes ( 22 ), mineral glass from mobile phone ( 8 ) and glass from phones' LCDs screens ( 10 ). However, applicability of this method, which can be successfully applied only, if the annealing bleaches out the RIS and does not affect the shape of BG signal, has not been yet verified experimentally.…”

Spectroscopic Investigation of Historical Uranium Glasses

“…There is also a recent interest for using the radiation defects in window glasses, screens of mobile phones, etc., in order to track the radiation history of the general population [7,8].…”