Radiant energy – Invisible radiant energy responsive electric signalling – Including a radiant energy responsive gas discharge device
Patent
1995-08-08
1997-09-09
Glick, Edward J.
Radiant energy
Invisible radiant energy responsive electric signalling
Including a radiant energy responsive gas discharge device
250361R, 25036303, 25036304, 250366, 250368, G01T 1161, G01T 1185, G01T 1205
Patent
active
056659717
ABSTRACT:
A nuclear or x-ray detector which utilizes Compton double-scattering of photons by radiation particles, followed by photoelectron absorption, to reconstruct the energy and direction of such particles.
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Bolozdynya Alexander I.
Chen Min
Caracappa David N.
Glick Edward J.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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