Calibration and Dosimetry Laboratory

Address: Avda. Diagonal, 647. 08028 Barcelona
Telephone: +34 934011872 / +34 93 4016073
E-mail: maria.roig-costaupc.edu

Head of Laboratory: Maria Amor Duch Guillem
Technical Director: Maria Roig Costa
Substitute Technical Director: Maria Amor Duch Guillem
Technicians:Anna Camp Brunés, Anna Torras

• To provide both an efficient and quality calibration service in order to cover the needs of ionising radiation users.
• To develop new measurement techniques to ensure continuous quality improvement of laboratory measurements and management
• To collaborate in the development of INTE research projects that require the use of well-characterised radiation fields, especially in the dosimetry and medical physics programme.
• To organise intercomparison campaigns with external personal dosimetry services.
• To collaborate with the thermoluminescence laboratory on optimization of measurement techniques for personal, environmental and medical dosimetry.

• Development and optimization of methods in producing reference radiation beams.
• Dosemeter irradiation under reference conditions.
• Providing a calibration service to users of ionising radiation within the remit of its accreditation as a test laboratory.

The Laboratory has a gamma irradiator with radioactive sources of various energies and activities, an X-ray generator with a maximum voltage of 320 kV, Rich-Seifert brand, model Isovolt HS320, and a mammography X-ray generator, Siemens brand, model MAMMOMAT 1000.

The reference chambers used for the characterization of photon radiation beams are calibrated at the German national laboratory Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB).

Calibrations and irradiations with beta beams are carried out using the secondary beta standard, STS brand, model BS 1.1, calibrated at the National Institute of Standards (USA).

A set of point sources and planar sources of various energies is also available to perform calibrations of surface contamination monitors and to study their efficiency for alpha, beta, and gamma radiation as a function of the energy of the incident radiation.

The laboratory regularly collaborates with organisations such as the Nuclear Safety Council (CSN), The Radioactive Coordination Service of the Department of Work, Industry, Commerce, Consumer affairs and Tourism of the Government of Catalonia, universities such as the University of Barcelona, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, hospitals such as the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Hospital Clínic i Provincial, Institut Català d’oncologia, Hospital de la Vall d’Hebron, fuel cycle facilities as ENUSA, ENRESA, Ascó Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant, Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant as well as other users of ionising radiation such as Trescal España de Metrología, Siemens, Asepeyo, Técnicas Radiofísicas, GDES and Keraben Grup.