Method for direct measurement of absorbed dose rate of beta-rays and an instrument therefor
A method and an instrument are, herein, disclosed for measuring the absorbed dose rate of beta-rays in sites of the human body. The instrument of this invention consists of a filter, a thin scintillator, a photomultiplier tube, a linear amplifier, a discriminator having a plurality of pulse height selection potentiometers for selectively taking in only pulses of pulse heights above specified upper limit of pulse height discrimination, a shaper for shaping the selected pulses, and a dose rate indicator for couting the shaped pulses. The method and the apparatus of this invention are characterized by making the relationship between the couting rate per fluence rate and the maximum energy of beta-ray equal to the realtionship between the absorbed dose rate per fluence rate and the maximum energy of beta-ray, and therefore, the absorbed dose rate can be measured independent of the energy of beta-ray.
- Assignee:
- Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst.
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4156139
- OSTI ID:
- 5485816
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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