The Ionizing Radiation Division provides national leadership in
promoting accurate, meaningful, and compatible measurements of ionizing
radiations (x rays, gamma rays, electrons, neutrons, energetic charged
particles), and radioactivity. The Division provides primary national
standards, dosimetry methods, measurement services, and basic data for
application of ionizing radiation to radiation protection of workers and the
general public, radiation therapy and diagnosis, nuclear medicine,
radiography, industrial radiation processing, nuclear electric power,
national defense, space science and environmental protection; conducts
theoretical and experimental research on weak interaction physics and
fundamental quantum physics and on the fundamental physical interactions of
ionizing radiation with matter; develops improved methods for radiation
measurement, dosimetry, and 2- and 3-dimensional mapping of radiation dose
distributions; develops improved primary radiation standards, and produces
highly accurate Standard Reference
Data for ionizing radiation and radioactive materials; provides
Standard Reference Materials,
calibrations, and measurement quality assurance services to users such as
hospitals, industry, States and other Federal agencies; develops measurement
methods and technology for use by the radiation processing industry, health
care industry, nuclear electric power industry, environmental technology,
and radiation-using industrial applications; and develops and operates
well-characterized sources and beams of electrons, photons, and neutrons for
primary radiation standards, calibrations, research on radiation
interactions, and development of measurement methods.
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Online: February 2001
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