Particle energy LET are important for determining the efficiency of SSNTD. In addition etching technique do influence the same. Use of some hydrogenious material around SSNTD increases efficiency. In the last nature or type of SSNTD material do influence. Last is the sensitivity of a given counting set up and techniques to counts criss-cross tracks.
Solid state nuclear track detectors are useful not only for dosimetry (e.g., of alpha particles from radon etc), but also for radiobiological experiments (e.g., by plating cultured cells onto CR-39 on one side, and by etching it on the other side, then the position of an ion hit within a cell population or even within a cell can be visualized).