Radiation flux measuring system with dead-time correction

Patent · Mon Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:5659154

Wasserman, P D

A radiation level measuring system having a Geiger-Muller gas ionizing tube as a detector. The inherent dead-time of the Geiger-Muller tube that follows a discharge pulse is compensated by the pulse counting electronic measuring circuit. A signal pulse of varying duration is formed from the detector output pulses in a manner that corrects for this dead-time. Measurement of this generated signal pulse duration give the actual radiation level that would be measured if the detector dead-time did not exist.

• Assignee: Xetex Inc.
• Patent Number(s): US 4491733
• OSTI ID: 5659154
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

440101* -- Radiation Instrumentation-- General Detectors or Monitors & Radiometric Instruments
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
DEAD TIME
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELECTRON TUBES
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
GAS DISCHARGE TUBES
GEIGER-MUELLER COUNTERS
IONIZATION
IONIZING RADIATIONS
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MONITORS
PULSE RISE TIME
PULSES
RADIATION DETECTORS
RADIATION MONITORS
RADIATIONS
TIME MEASUREMENT
TIMING CIRCUITS
TIMING PROPERTIES
X RADIATION