Skin contamination dosimeter

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2011-06-21

2011-06-21

Kim, Kiho (Department: 2884)

Radiant energy

Invisible radiant energy responsive electric signalling

With or including a luminophor

Reexamination Certificate

active

07964848

ABSTRACT:
A technique and device provides absolute skin dosimetry in real time at multiple tissue depths simultaneously. The device uses a phoswich detector which has multiple scintillators embedded at different depths within a non-scintillating material. A digital pulse processor connected to the phoswich detector measures a differential distribution (dN/dH) of count rate N as function of pulse height H for signals from each of the multiple scintillators. A digital processor computes in real time from the differential count-rate distribution for each of multiple scintillators an estimate of an ionizing radiation dose delivered to each of multiple depths of skin tissue corresponding to the multiple scintillators embedded at multiple corresponding depths within the non-scintillating material.

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