Why RADView?

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The RADView badge uses an amber film with an SPF (to be provided by ISP) that protects the dosimeter from sunlight and fluorescent light.  During an incident the badge can be clipped to the outside of clothing or placed in a sleeve to facilitate direct reading.  The badge can be read while wearing gloves.

The card comes with a black plastic film that completely covers the card.  YOU CANNOT READ THE DOSE WITHOUT LIFTING THE FLAP.  THIS REQUIRES TWO HANDS.  Reading the badge could be difficult while wearing heavy gloves or multiple layers of gloves, as is typical in firefighting, HAZMAT or radiological protection environments.

The RADView badge incorporates a USE period indicator using grey scale contrast to determine if the badge is too old or has excessive UV exposure and needs to be replaced.

Other colorametric dosimeter cards incorporate a FIT indicator that gives an immediate color indicator of exposure to excessive heat or UV.  THIS INDICATOR MAY BE DIFFICULT OR IMPOSSIBLE TO INTERPRET BY COLOR BLIND PEOPLE.

The amber filter converts the natural blue color of the film to grey scale, which allows workers with color blindness to read the dose accurately.

Testing has shown that 93% to 98% of test participants can interpret the grey scale display of RADView and correlate to an appropriate Protective Action Guidance.

Ten million men in the US are color blind.  This is 7% of the population.  Color codes are difficult or impossible for color blind people to interpret.  Examples are battery jumper cables, electrical wiring, DHS security level classification, fire extinguisher codes, or bottled gases.  Good graphic design does no use color “avoids using color coding or color contrasts alone to express information” (Wikipedia)

The badge has a “color matching scale” designed to let you “see the dose in colors,” which is difficult or impossible for color blind people.

Testing by a government laboratory showed that color blind individuals, who comprised 25% of a volunteer group,  showed an average total error of ~90% in reading doses on “the other dosimeter badge” cards.

The RADView badge meets or exceeds all existing or proposed government standards for temperature stability.

Finally, the material used in our card has a higher temperature threshold.

The RADView badge accurately responds to radiation energies from 60 keV X-rays to 1 MeV within an accuracy of 5%.

In a government laboratory test, the “the other dosimeter badge” 137Cs response differs from the M150 x-ray response by 45 percent.

For ANSI N322, the performance requirement for the accuracy test is that the measured result be within 10 percent of the delivered dose.  Testing by an independent laboratory shows RADView has an accuracy error less than 3% for gamma rays.

For ANSI N322, the performance requirement for the accuracy test is that the measured result be within 10 percent of the delivered dose.  The government laboratory results for Cs-137 show an inaccuracy of approximately 40% and that most “the other dosimeter badge” results DO NOT MEET THIS STANDARD.

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For ANSI N13.11, the performance requirement is that the total bias plus standard deviation error be within 30% of the delivered dose.  Testing by an independent laboratory shows RADView has a total error less than 9%.

For ANSI N13.11, the performance requirement is that the total bias plus standard deviation error be within 30% of the delivered dose.  The government laboratory results show that “the other dosimeter badge” total error is 56% for Cs-137, WHICH DOES NOT MEET THIS STANDARD.