Specialized detectors

Sketch the setup of your experiment (sample-to-detector distance2 3, requested detectors), special sample environment requested from the facility or brought with you), and your experiment plan (how many samples What parameters are varied ) and deduce from it the number of requested shifts or days ... 

In addition to refractive index detectors, specialized detectors such as on-line SEC detectors and low angle laser light scattering detectors are used for determining the distribution of molecular weights by SEC. 

Use of the LS counter for alpha-particle spectral analysis is discussed in Section 8.3.2. Source preparation is simpler, but energy resolution is worse than with the solid-state detector. Special source preparation and electronic pulse-shape selection can improve resolution. 

Detectors Specialized chemical or electronic instruments nsed to detect mine gases. 

N. E.Byer, S.E.Stokowski Martin Marietta Laboratories Tech. Rpt. 76-30 (Unclassifled) Presented at IRIS Detector Speciality Meeting, March 1976, San Diego... 

Hydrodynamic chromatography. This technique is related to SEC in that it attempts to separate species according to their size, but several orders of magnitude larger than those encountered in solution chromatography. The mechanisms involved in hydrodynamic chromatography are different to SEC, but the basic experimental system is similar pump, injector, column and detector. Special columns and data analysis software are required, and the detectors usually employed are a differential refractometer, ultraviolet photometer or LALLS. Chapter 10 is devoted to this technique and full details can be found there. 

This type of analysis requires several chromatographic columns and detectors. Hydrocarbons are measured with the aid of a flame ionization detector FID, while the other gases are analyzed using a katharometer. A large number of combinations of columns is possible considering the commutations between columns and, potentially, backflushing of the carrier gas. As an example, the hydrocarbons can be separated by a column packed with silicone or alumina while O2, N2 and CO will require a molecular sieve column. H2S is a special case because this gas is fixed irreversibly on a number of chromatographic supports. Its separation can be achieved on certain kinds of supports such as Porapak which are styrene-divinylbenzene copolymers. This type of phase is also used to analyze CO2 and water. 

It is not possible to present all special detectors used in gas phase chromatography, but instead we will mention some recent applications. 

Due to large improvements in computer technology in combination with new designs of area x-ray detector systems it is possible to extend the 2D-CT systems up to the third dimension. Therefor special algorithms and techniques for 3D-CT of the measured projection data and 3D visualisation and measurement of the results had to be developed. 

A much better way would be to use phase contrast, rather than attenuation contrast, since the phase change, due to changes in index of refraction, can be up to 1000 times larger than the change in amplitude. However, phase contrast techniques require the disposal of monochromatic X-ray sources, such as synchrotrons, combined with special optics, such as double crystal monochromatics and interferometers [2]. Recently [3] it has been shown that one can also obtain phase contrast by using a polychromatic X-ray source provided the source size and detector resolution are small enough to maintain sufficient spatial coherence. 

Due to the pulsed radiation output of the LINAC the detectors and the detector electronics have to handle very high counting rates in very short periods. Therefore the detectors have to work in a mode, where the detector output is integrated for one or several beam pulses. For that purpose the crystals are coupled to photo- diodes. Their currents are read out and analysed by the electronic board, which has been developed for this special application. 

Objects which are not covered completely by the fan-beam, which is defined by the linear detector array and the source can be inspected in a special mode. In this case the usable width of the fan is doubled, by placing the turning centre of the object onto the two edges oft the fan. 

Therefore it is reasonable to prepare already the data acquisition for a three dimensional evaluation in cone-beam-technique by means of two-dimensional detectors. The system is already prepared to integrate a second detector- system for this purpose. An array of up to four flat panel detectors is foreseen. The detector- elements are based on amorphous silicon. Because of the high photon energy and the high dose rates special attention was necessary to protect the read-out electronics. Details of the detector arrangement and the software for reconstruction, visualisation and comparison between the CT results and CAD data are part of a separate paper during this conference [2]. 

In order to prepare the system for 3D-CT, it is not enough to integrate a second detector array. Besides this special attention has to be paid to the computer hardware, the synchronisation between object movement and the data read out as well as to the collimator of the LINAC. The collimator has been built with 4 tungsten blocks which can be moved individually m order to shape different sht sizes for 2D-CT as well as different cone angles for 3D-CT or digital radiography. 

In the usual preparatioii-evohition-detection paradigm, neither the preparation nor the detection depend on the details of the Hamiltonian, except hi special cases. Starthig from equilibrium, a hard pulse gives a density matrix that is just proportional to F. The detector picks up only the unweighted sum of the spin operators,... 

Specialized detectors and inlet systems for GC/MS and LC/MS are described in Chapters 36 and 37, respectively. 

Germanium metal is also used in specially prepared Ge single crystals for y-ray detectors (54). Both the older hthium-drifted detectors and the newer intrinsic detectors, which do not have to be stored in hquid nitrogen, do an exceUent job of spectral analysis of y-radiation and are important analytical tools. Even more sensitive Ge detectors have been made using isotopicahy enriched Ge crystals. Most of these have been made from enriched Ge and have been used in neutrino studies (55—57). 

Corrosion. Anticorrosion measures have become standard ia pipeline desiga, coastmctioa, and maintenance ia the oil and gas iadustries the principal measures are appHcation of corrosion-preventive coatings and cathodic protection for exterior protection and chemical additives for iaterior protectioa. Pipe for pipelines may be bought with a variety of coatiags, such as tar, fiber glass, felt and heavy paper, epoxy, polyethylene, etc, either pre-apphed or coated and wrapped on the job with special machines as the pipe is lowered iato the treach. An electric detector is used to determine if a coatiag gap (hoHday) exists bare spots are coated before the pipe is laid (see Corrosion and corrosion control). 

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