摘要:
A method and a system for detecting the presence of special nuclear materials in a container. The system and its method include irradiating the container with an energetic beam, so as to induce a fission in the special nuclear materials, detecting the gamma rays that are emitted from the fission products formed by the fission, to produce a detector signal, comparing the detector signal with a threshold value to form a comparison, and detecting the presence of the special nuclear materials using the comparison.
摘要:
The present invention is directed to an integrated scintillator and collimator array for a CT detector. The integrated scintillator and collimator are fabricated from a manufacturing process or technique whereupon an array of scintillator material is positioned on a tooling base such that a collimator mold housing having a collimator mold therein may be positioned on the block of scintillator material. The block and mold housing are then aligned allowing a collimator mixture to be disposed into the mold. The collimator mixture is then allowed to cure to form an integrated scintillator and collimator.
摘要:
A radiation camera system, comprising: a freely positionable radiation camera; a spatial coordinate determining system that determines the coordinates of the camera; and a receiver which receives the spatial coordinate information and imaging information, generated by the camera and provides imaging information referenced to a coordinate system not fixed in the camera.
摘要:
A high-flow rate, low-noise, gas sampling apparatus for collecting particulate such as biological, chemical, and radioactive material from a gas on a collector such as an impaction collector includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet and a fan disposed within the housing for drawing the gas into the inlet, past the collector for sampling, and exhausting the gas through the outlet. The fan is operable to produce a flow of gas through the housing of greater than about 50 liters per minute with a noise level emitted from the apparatus being less than about 60 decibels. The apparatus may be configured as a compact, unobtrusive, portable, lightweight apparatus for use in various indoor or outdoor locations. The apparatus may also include a sensor for the detection of radioactive material collected on the collector, a processor for monitoring the sampling, and the apparatus may be linked to a communications network such as the Internet. Methods for collecting particulate from a gas are also enclosed.
摘要:
The invention provides a technique for correcting gamma ray intensities detected to account for variation in attenuation effects with energy. The corrected intensity values enable more accurate isotopic analysis to be conducted and render such techniques applicable to low level emission cases. The technique is particularly useful in investigate waste materials with a gamma emitting content which needs to be determined. The attenuation is corrected for using a bi-modal function to account for the attenuation effects arising from low and high atomic mass components of the material in which the emitters are present.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for detection of radiation comprising at least a first collimator arranged to transmitted radiation through at least a first slit in a Z-direction and prevent radiation in said Z-direction apart from through said at least first slit. The invention further comprises at least a first array of at least two radiation detecting elements, that each of said radiation detecting elements having null length a in an X-direction, where said X-direction is the direction of said array of radiation detecting elements, that each of said radiation detecting elements having a length null in a Y-direction, that said at least first slit, for letting through radiation in the Z-direction, has a length in said second X-direction which is at least as long as said array of radiation detecting elements, that said at least first slit has a length in said Y-direction which is substantially shorter than said length null of said radiation detecting elements, and displacement means arranged to move said collimator and/or said array of radiation detecting elements.
摘要:
A method for detecting the three-dimensional position of an examination instrument inserted into a body region, on which instrument there are provided three markings whose mutual geometric arrangement is known, by using a device for recording radiation images with the aid of a radiation source and a radiation receiver, includes the steps of, recording two-dimensional projection image of the body region, determining the positions (ui, vi) of the three markings in the projection image, and determining the spatial coordinates (xi, yi, zi) of the three markings in the coordinate system of the recording device with the aid of the positions (ui, vi) and the projection matrix belonging to the projection image, taking into account the known mutual geometric arrangement of the markings.
摘要:
A method of imaging by means of ionizing radiation in which a first measurement f1 is performed by integrating a detection signal generated by each detection cell of an ionizing radiation detector while simultaneously making a second measurement f2 by counting ionizing rays, and then an estimate of the flux is calculated, in particular by using the formula fnullnull.f1null(1nullnull).f2 where null is an increasing function over the range 0 to 1 of a first estimate fe of the flux f, which first estimate is established as a function of at least one of the first and second measurements f1 and f2.
摘要:
A focal plane array for millimeter wave imaging comprising a three dimensional stack of antenna elements and radiometer microwave monolithic integrated circuits (MMICs) embedded in polymer dielectric layers built on top of a silicon substrate. Each radiometer MMIC and antenna element comprise a radiometer pixel. The silicon substrate contains integrated circuits to collect and process the signals from each radiometer pixel and generate a full-frame video signal. The array can be fabricated on a single silicon wafer or can be constructed from structures fabricated on multiple silicon wafers.
摘要:
A cassette-type image taking apparatus for acquiring a radiograph of an object includes an electric circuit unit including a radiation image detecting unit, of which a radiation image detecting face is substantially formed of a quadrangle, a case which contains said electric circuit unit, a handle provided at a side face of said case facing one side of said quadrangle, where a face containing a radiation incident face of said case opposite said radiation image detecting face is supposed to be the front face, and a connecting port which is capable of connecting, in a detachable manner, a cable for electrically connecting said electric circuit unit and an external device, at least part of said connecting port being provided in a handle-side side region as a side face region of said case in the same side of said handle with respect to a plane containing said one side and a normal line of said radiation image detecting face crossing said one side.