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Purpose: The authors' objective was to systematically assess the performance of seven photodetectors used in plastic scintillation dosimetry. The authors also... 
optical fibres | Lenses, prisms and mirrors | dosimetry | p‐i‐n photodiodes | the detector being a liquid | Measurement of nuclear or x‐radiation | Scintigraphy | the detector being a crystal | photodetectors | with semiconductor detectors | Semiconductor devices sensitive to infra‐red radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength, or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof | solid scintillation detectors | Devices sensitive to infra‐red, visible or ultra‐violet radiation | Avalanche photodiodes | the potential barrier being of the PIN type | PSD | Charge coupled devices | Optical fibers | lenses | Position sensitive detectors | Photodetectors (including infrared and CCD detectors) | scintillator | Other fiber‐optical devices | photomultipliers | Photodiodes; phototransistors; photoresistors | Plates or blocks in which tracks of nuclear particles are made visible by after‐treatment, e.g. using photographic emulsion, using mica | Ionization chambers | dosimeter | photodetector | Dose‐volume analysis | Photomultipliers; phototubes and photocathodes | Including semiconductor components sensitive to infra‐red radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation | the detector being made of plastics | Photometry, e.g. photographic exposure meter | Electrometers | Electron multipliers | Tubes for determining the presence, intensity, density or energy of radiation or particles | Cameras | Simple or compound lenses | ARRAY | ORGANIC SCINTILLATORS | ENERGY BEAM DOSIMETRY | DIAGNOSTIC-RADIOLOGY | FIBEROPTIC DOSIMETER | RADIATION-THERAPY | CERENKOV RADIATION | DETECTORS | OPTICAL-FIBERS | RADIOTHERAPY | RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING | Plastics - radiation effects | Scintillation Counting - methods | Photometry - instrumentation | Reproducibility of Results | Sensitivity and Specificity | Scintillation Counting - instrumentation | Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation | Equipment Design | Equipment Failure Analysis | CAMERAS | MONOCHROMATIC RADIATION | BIOMEDICAL RADIOGRAPHY | PERFORMANCE | RADIATION DOSES | 60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES | LENSES | SCINTILLATIONS | ACCURACY | LINEAR ACCELERATORS | PHOTODETECTORS | RECOMMENDATIONS | OPTICAL FIBERS | DOSE RATES | DOSIMETRY