From SciShow‘s miniseries IDTIMWYTIM (“I Don’t Think it Means What You Think it Means”), this fun video gives a basic overview of the different types of radiation beyond ionizing radiation and where they are found in real life.
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YSO and SiPM Radiation Detection Advantages
YSO and SiPM Radiation Detection Advantages 1. Introduction 1.1 An Introduction to the Scintillation Detector A gamma ray interacting with a scintillator produces a pulse of light, which is converted to an electric pulse by a photon sensor. Scintillation detectors are one of the oldest and most widely used means of radiation detection
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SiPM versus PMT
Why does X-Z LAB use SiPM instead of PMT in our radiation detectors? Similar to a photomultiplier tube (PMT), a silicon photomultiplier chip (SiPM) provides high-gain and a fast response when detecting radiation. In other words, you can see more clearly and at a higher resolution—and the results come back much
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Development of PET
A Simple All-digital PET System
Abstract Positron emission tomography (PET) systems employ mixed-signal front-end to carry out relatively simple, and ad hoc , processing of the charge pulses generated upon event detection. To obtain, and maintain over time, proper calibrations of the mixed-signal circuitry for generating accurate event information is a challenging task due to
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A Multi-threshold Sampling Method for TOF-PET Signal Processing
Abstract As an approach to realizing all-digital data acquisition for Positron Emission Tomography (PET), we have previously proposed and studied a multi-threshold sampling method to generate samples of a PET event waveform with respect to a few user-defined amplitudes. In this sampling scheme, one can extract both the energy and
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Difference Between Survey Meters, Geiger Counters and Dosimeters
Meters and dosimeters have separate roles in indicating the presence of hazardous radiation levels and are critical life-saving tools in nuclear emergencies. Survey Meters The following instruments measure exposure rate or the intensity of radiation at a location at some point in time: survey meters, field survey meters, rate meters,
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