Automatic thermoluminescence dosimetric system

An automatic thermo-luminescence dosimeter comprising:

• at least one thermo-luminescence dosimeter element including a card carrying a thermo-luminescence material, said card being contained within an encasing member;
• a magazine adapted to accommodate therein a plurality of said thermo-luminescence dosimeter elements;
• means for transporting said magazine to a predetermined position;
• dosimeter element feeding means for extracting one of said thermoluminescence dosimeter elements from said magazine and feeding said element into a longitudinal groove formed in a housing;
• releasing means for releasing engagement between the card and encasing member of said one dosimeter element;
• card feeding means for taking the card from the encasing member of said one dosimeter element and feeding said card into a transversal groove formed in said housing;
• heating means for heating said thermo-luminescence material carried by the card fed to said transversal groove by irradiating said material with infrared rays;
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• photoelectric converter means for converting the thermo-luminescence emitted by said thermo-luminescence material into an electric signal, said card feeding means returning said card to said encasing member and said dosimetric element feeding means returning said encasing member and card to said magazine after measurement of said thermo-luminescence element by said photoelectric converter.