caa a22 4500 397502451 CHVBK 20180308164535.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19950801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a082750 doi 0144-8420 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a082750 Sauli (INVITED) F. INVITED Potentials of Advanced Gas Detectors for Health Physics [Elektronische Daten] [F. Sauli (INVITED)] A large variety of fast electronic gaseous detectors have been developed in recent years to meet the challenging requirements of particle physics experiments. These devices, and in particular the multiwire proportional chamber, the drift chamber, the time projection chamber and the microstrip gas chamber, have increasingly good granularity and tracking capability for complex events, and very good tolerance to large radiation fluxes. After a short summary of the operating principles of gas detectors, this paper elaborates on possible applications of the new devices as tools to analyse experimentally the microscopic features of the energy loss mechanisms in biological tissues (nanodosimetry). The combination of a time projection chamber as main detector with a microstrip end-plate, taking advantage of the scale expansion provided by operating at low gas density, should allow us to reach a granularity at the nanometer scale only achievable today with passive devices. Radiation Protection Dosimetry Radiation Protection Dosimetry Oxford University Press 61/1-3(1995-08-01), 29-38 0144-8420 61:1-3<29 1995 61 rpd https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a082750 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a082750 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sauli (INVITED) F. INVITED NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Radiation Protection Dosimetry Oxford University Press 61/1-3(1995-08-01), 29-38 0144-8420 61:1-3<29 1995 61 rpd Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford