ResearchWe provide world-class research, calibrations, specialised measurement services and training for the dosimetry of ionizing radiation in cancer therapy, diagnostics and industrial sterilisation for medicine and pharmaceutics.
- Graphite calorimeters are the primary standards for absorbed dose at the NPL.
- Chemical dosimetry involves determination of dose by the measurement of chemical changes induced in materials by ionising radiation.
- In collaboration with the Maastro Clinic, Maastricht, Netherlands, NPL is developing a novel method of dosimetry using an Electronic Portal Imaging Device, a device found mounted on most clinical linacs used in hospitals for the treatment of cancer by radiotherapy.
- NPL offers consultancies, collaborations and training, based on our scientists' wealth of experience in Monte Carlo radiation modelling and other modelling techniques.
- Proton and ion beams exhibit better dose characteristics than x-rays for radiotherapy.