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Title: Device for calibrating a radiation detector system

Abstract

A device is disclosed for testing a radiation detector system that includes at least two arrays of radiation detectors that are movable with respect to each other. The device includes a ''shield plate'' or shell, and an opposing ''source plate'' containing a source of ionizing radiation. Guides are attached to the outer surface of the shell for engaging the forward ends of the detectors, thereby reproducibly positioning the detectors with respect to the source and with respect to each other, thereby ensuring that a predetermined portion of the radiation emitted by the source passes through the shell and reaches the detectors. The shell is made of an hydrogenous material having approximately the same radiological attenuation characteristics as composite human tissue. The source represents a human organ such as the lungs, heart, kidneys, liver, spleen, pancreas, thyroid, testes, prostate, or ovaries. The source includes a source of ionizing radiation having a long half-life and an activity that is within the range typically searched for in human subjects. 3 figures.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
OSTI Identifier:
6649348
Patent Number(s):
5376803
Application Number:
PPN: US 8-125215
Assignee:
Dept. of Energy, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:  
AC09-89SR18035
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 23 Sep 1993
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; RADIATION DETECTORS; CALIBRATION; DESIGN; MAN; RADIATION SOURCES; ANIMALS; MAMMALS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MEDICINE; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATES; 550600* - Medicine; 440101 - Radiation Instrumentation- General Detectors or Monitors & Radiometric Instruments

Citation Formats

McFee, M C, Kirkham, T J, and Johnson, T H. Device for calibrating a radiation detector system. United States: N. p., 1994. Web.
McFee, M C, Kirkham, T J, & Johnson, T H. Device for calibrating a radiation detector system. United States.
McFee, M C, Kirkham, T J, and Johnson, T H. Tue . "Device for calibrating a radiation detector system". United States.
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abstractNote = {A device is disclosed for testing a radiation detector system that includes at least two arrays of radiation detectors that are movable with respect to each other. The device includes a ''shield plate'' or shell, and an opposing ''source plate'' containing a source of ionizing radiation. Guides are attached to the outer surface of the shell for engaging the forward ends of the detectors, thereby reproducibly positioning the detectors with respect to the source and with respect to each other, thereby ensuring that a predetermined portion of the radiation emitted by the source passes through the shell and reaches the detectors. The shell is made of an hydrogenous material having approximately the same radiological attenuation characteristics as composite human tissue. The source represents a human organ such as the lungs, heart, kidneys, liver, spleen, pancreas, thyroid, testes, prostate, or ovaries. The source includes a source of ionizing radiation having a long half-life and an activity that is within the range typically searched for in human subjects. 3 figures.},
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year = {Tue Dec 27 00:00:00 EST 1994},
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