Gamma detection

Signal-to-noise considerations make most neutron-based explosive detection approaches very difficult to implement. The basis for combining multiple detection approaches (FNA, along with thermal gamma detection and neutron transmission spectroscopy) in a FNAP application that preserves the small volume advantage of a APSTNG remains to be established. There are distinct advantages associated with the API approach, but the concomitant reductions in available neutron flux, issues of tube lifetime, and the intrinsic poor spatial resolution must be taken into consideration for potential applications. 

The use of a pulsed neutron source can help reduce some of the background by gating the detectors to eliminate material outside of a particular region, or by binning the data in time so as to improve SNR. In this case, we compute the time difference At between the neutron and the gamma detection at the detector. 

Small size CdTe, Csl or Nal detectors. Gamma-detection in restricted areas (such as inside fuel assemblies). 

FIG. 16.7. HPLC purification of Lu-OCT (a) UV detection at 220 nm, (b) gamma detection of the labelling mixture and (c) control of the radiochemical purity of the radiopeptide after further purification by SepPak. 

CsI(Tl). CsI(Tl) has a higher density (4.51 X 10 kg/m ) and higher atomic number than Nal therefore its efficiency for gamma detection is higher. The light-conversion efficiency of CsI(Tl) is about 45 percent of that for NaKTl) at room temperature. At liquid nitrogen temperatures (77K), pure Csl has a light output equal to that of Nal(Tl) at room temperature and a decay constant equal to 10 s. The emission spectrum of CsI(Tl) extends from 420 to about 600 nm. 

Ge(Li) detectors are not made anymore they have been replaced by pure germanium crystals. Historically, Ge(Li) detectors dominated the gamma detection field for about 15 years (until about 1985). Since there may still be some Ge(Li) s operating, a brief discussion is presented in this section. 

O.S g. The neutron system responds primarily to spontaneous fission neutrons, and is not expected to be quite as sensitive as the gamma detecting system for small quantities of Pu. 

In Y-12 Plant areas, gamma-ray rate meters utilizing commercially available gamma-detecting scintillators are employed. Two detectors comprise each monitoring station and are installed so as to require the simultaneous response of both Instruments to activate the evacuation alarm signal. Fail-safe features are included to ensure that failure will not invalidate the system. To further ensure the continuing operability of the monitors, each Instrument contains a built-in source to provide a positive meter response bias at all times. The alarm set point is 50 mR/h. 

Bonfanti, G., and C. Triulzi. 1974. Beta and Gamma Detection Efficiencies for Some Typical Radionuclides in Sources of Different Matrix and Geometry. CISE, Documentation Service, Milan, Italy, Publ. No. CISE-N-169. 15 pp., 19 figs. 

Beta and gamma detection are somewhat easier than alpha detection because the radiation has a considerable range in... 

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LNL gas-filled separator Ge detectors chemistry gamma detection... 

Jyvaskyla RITU [44] QDQQ gas-filled separator Recoil ID Ge detectors JUROGAM II [63] gamma detection SAGE [43] gamma and elecron detection... 

It is also possible to make measurements in situ, for example portable gamma detection equipment can be used if the target radionuclides can be characterised by key-line gamma energy levels. Considerations of the specimen size leads to an important difference between in situ investigations of chemically contaminated land and radioactively contaminated land. It is possible to make field measurements in situ of the chemical concentration of metals in soil by using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (PXRF) equipment. In PXRF, the specimen size is of the order of a few cubic millimetres. It is therefore much smaller than a typical specimen that would be extracted for laboratory analysis. ... 

The availability of large volume LaBrs Ce detectors has generated in the scientific community working with scintillators a large interest as its properties make it the best scintillator crystal for gamma detection/spectroscopy and, a possible alternative to HPGe. 

Liu, Y, Tuleouva, N., Ramanculov, E., Revzin, A., 2010. Aptamer-based electrochemical biosensor for interferon gamma detection. Anal. Chem. 82, 8131-8136. 

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