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Novel polyvinyl alcohol film dosimeter containing 3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide dye for high dose application

  • Khalid A. Rabaeh (Medical Imaging Department, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, The Hashemite University) ;
  • Ahmed A. Basfar (Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University) ;
  • Issra' M.E. Hammoudeh (School of Basic Sciences and Humanities, German Jordanian University)
  • Received : 2022.09.20
  • Accepted : 2023.06.05
  • Published : 2023.09.25
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Abstract

A new dyed polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) film dosimeter based on 3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MMT) tetrazolium dye is proposed in this study for measuring high gamma radiation dose. Gamma cell irradiator that contains Co-60 gamma-ray source was used to expose the novel MMT-PVA films to different doses up to 25 kGy. The changed in optical property of irradiated and unirradiated films were characterized by UV-Vis spectrophotometer. The results show that the dose sensitive and the linear range of irradiated films were increased considerably with increase of MMT concentration from 1 to 5 mM. The dose response of dyed PVA film changed substantially with changing relative humidity (12-74%) as well as irradiation temperature (10-40 ℃). The absorbance of the unirradiated films does not change up to 10 days in dark while a significant increase in their absorbance was reported for similar films under fluorescent light. The irradiated dosimeters that kept in dark showed a perfect stability for 54 days. It was found that no obvious impact of dose rate on the irradiated MMT-PVA film dosimeters.

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This work was supported by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), KSA (grant 10-BIO960-20).

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