Re: Security Screening Technique

[Dimiter Popoff <tgi@cit.bg>]

> Some  CZT based devices have 

> good resolution ....



How good do they get? How many keV FWHM @ 661.6 keV? Or at 1332.5, if

this would be the preferred spec?





> ...and are able to identify  isotopes accurately and report 

> their most common use ie. medical, industrial etc..  



Are you saying you can use one of them to assess with sufficient

certainty the quality and quantity of an unknown sample, walking

on the street, to an extent when you can say "OK, this is just

someone after medical treatment, no alarm to the officer"?



> The sensitivity of 

> CZT is more than adequate to scan people who have been injected with 

> isotopes.



Sure, especially since you know what they have been injected with.



Dimiter



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