Patent classifications
G01T1/167
METHOD FOR CALIBRATING AN IONISING RADIATION DETECTOR AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE
A method for calibrating an ionising radiation detector, with the aim of determining a correction factor in order to establish an amplitude-energy correspondence The invention first relates to a method for calibrating a device for detecting ionising radiation, the detector comprising a semiconductor or scintillator detection material capable of generating a signal S of amplitude A upon interaction between ionising radiation and the detection material, the method including the determination of a weighting factor of amplitude A.
MARINELLI BEAKER CORRECTION CONTAINER FOR STABLE RADIONUCLIDE ANALYSIS
The present invention relates to a Marinelli beaker correction container for stable radionuclide analysis, the Marinelli beaker correction container including: a container body having a diameter corresponding to a detector mounting part provided at a lower part of the Marinelli beaker, and being insertedly mounted to the detector mounting part; a detector coupling groove being formed at a lower part of the container body with an inner diameter corresponding to a diameter of the spectroscopy system detector, and allowing the Marinelli beaker to be mounted on the spectroscopy system detector by insertedly mounting the spectroscopy system detector to the detector coupling groove; and a ventilation hole being vertically formed through a center of a top surface of the container body, and allowing the container body to be smoothly mounted or dismounted due to air ventilation when the container body is mounted to or dismounted from the detector mounting part.
MARINELLI BEAKER CORRECTION CONTAINER FOR STABLE RADIONUCLIDE ANALYSIS
The present invention relates to a Marinelli beaker correction container for stable radionuclide analysis, the Marinelli beaker correction container including: a container body having a diameter corresponding to a detector mounting part provided at a lower part of the Marinelli beaker, and being insertedly mounted to the detector mounting part; a detector coupling groove being formed at a lower part of the container body with an inner diameter corresponding to a diameter of the spectroscopy system detector, and allowing the Marinelli beaker to be mounted on the spectroscopy system detector by insertedly mounting the spectroscopy system detector to the detector coupling groove; and a ventilation hole being vertically formed through a center of a top surface of the container body, and allowing the container body to be smoothly mounted or dismounted due to air ventilation when the container body is mounted to or dismounted from the detector mounting part.
METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR INSPECTING OBJECT BASED ON COSMIC RAY
The present application relates to a method, apparatus and system for inspecting an object based on a cosmic ray, pertaining to the technical field of radiometric imaging and safety inspection. The method includes: recording a movement trajectory of an inspected object by using a monitoring device; acquiring information of charged particles in the cosmic ray by using a position-sensitive detector, the information of charged particles comprising trajectory information of the charged particles; performing position coincidence for the movement trajectory and the trajectory information to determine the object; performing trajectory remodeling for the charged particles according to the information of charged particles; and identifying a material inside the moving object according to the trajectory remodeling. According to the present disclosure, pedestrians who are walking and moving are inspected by using the cosmic ray, and nuclear materials, drugs and explosive materials and the like carried by human bodies may be detected.
DEVICE FOR SORTING MATERIALS, IN PARTICULAR SCRAP PARTICLES, BY MEANS OF X-RAY FLUORESCENCE
A device for identifying materials on a conveyor belt (101) by means of X-ray fluorescence comprising an X-ray source (102), from which X-ray radiation (103) is guided onto material parts (104), comprising a detector head (107) containing an X-ray detector array (108) having a multiplicity of detector elements (113, 114, 115) arranged in a planar fashion for receiving X-ray radiation (105) and for converting said X-ray radiation into electrical charge signals, and also an electronic unit (109) for reading out and processing the charge signals, which comprises for each individual detector element a signal channel (120) having in each case: a discriminator unit (117) having at least two adjustable discriminator thresholds (116, 122) for detecting all Gaussian curve-like signals (119) whose amplitude is greater than one of the two or simultaneously greater than both discriminator thresholds, and also one counting unit (118, 121) per discriminator threshold for converting the signals into digital counting events,
wherein the individual detector elements of the X-ray detector array have a spatial resolution of 50 μm to 500 μm with a sensitivity to X-ray radiation in an energy range of between 500 eV and 30 keV, with an energy resolution of less than 0.5 keV at counting rates of up to 100 kcps and relative to an energy of 8.04 keV, the electronic unit comprises a signal channel for each individual detector element of the X-ray detector array,
and each discriminator unit for a specific detector element is in each case electrically connected to the discriminator units of the detector elements that are spatially directly adjacent to said detector element, wherein all the discriminator units are interconnected with one another via a digital and/or analog circuit in such a way that simultaneous occurrence of signals on more than one detector element can be identified and treated electrically separately.
Method of treating radioactive liquid waste and radioactive liquid waste treatment apparatus
Provided is a method of treating radioactive liquid waste which reduces the amount of radioactive waste to be generated and is capable of removing a radioactive nuclide from radioactive liquid waste to the extent that the concentration thereof is less than or equal to the measurement lower limit using a simple apparatus configuration. A filtration device is connected to a colloid removal device by a connection pipe. An adsorption tower positioned at the highest stream of an adsorption device is connected to the colloid removal device by a connection pipe. The colloid removal device includes an electrostatic filter. Respective adsorption towers in the adsorption device are sequentially connected by a pipe. A discharge pipe is connected to the adsorption tower positioned at the lowest stream of the adsorption device. Radioactive liquid waste, containing particles having a particle diameter of 1 μm or greater, negatively charged colloids, and a radioactive nuclide, is supplied to the filtration device. The particles having a particle diameter of 1 μm or greater are removed by the filtration device and the negatively charged colloids are removed by the electrostatic filter that is positively charged. The radioactive nuclide is removed by the adsorption tower.
Method of treating radioactive liquid waste and radioactive liquid waste treatment apparatus
Provided is a method of treating radioactive liquid waste which reduces the amount of radioactive waste to be generated and is capable of removing a radioactive nuclide from radioactive liquid waste to the extent that the concentration thereof is less than or equal to the measurement lower limit using a simple apparatus configuration. A filtration device is connected to a colloid removal device by a connection pipe. An adsorption tower positioned at the highest stream of an adsorption device is connected to the colloid removal device by a connection pipe. The colloid removal device includes an electrostatic filter. Respective adsorption towers in the adsorption device are sequentially connected by a pipe. A discharge pipe is connected to the adsorption tower positioned at the lowest stream of the adsorption device. Radioactive liquid waste, containing particles having a particle diameter of 1 μm or greater, negatively charged colloids, and a radioactive nuclide, is supplied to the filtration device. The particles having a particle diameter of 1 μm or greater are removed by the filtration device and the negatively charged colloids are removed by the electrostatic filter that is positively charged. The radioactive nuclide is removed by the adsorption tower.
Imaging detector system for gamma radiation using unidirectional and bidirectional Compton scattering processes
A device for generating one or more images of a source distribution of a gamma radiation field in the near and far field can include a detector system that includes several synchronized detectors for detecting radiation, system electronics that registers coincidence events, a data acquisition system that stores the measurement data of the coincidence events, and an analysis unit that performs an image reconstruction, which reconstructs one or more images of the source distribution of the radiation field.
Imaging detector system for gamma radiation using unidirectional and bidirectional Compton scattering processes
A device for generating one or more images of a source distribution of a gamma radiation field in the near and far field can include a detector system that includes several synchronized detectors for detecting radiation, system electronics that registers coincidence events, a data acquisition system that stores the measurement data of the coincidence events, and an analysis unit that performs an image reconstruction, which reconstructs one or more images of the source distribution of the radiation field.
Gamma-Ray Imaging
A coded mask apparatus is provided for gamma rays. The apparatus uses nested masks, at least one of which rotates relative to the other.