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Re: Patients trigger border radiation alarms



Tom,



> Dimiter,

> You can't do spectroscopy with a portal monitor.  



 Well I wonder how much do they cost. I would be less than

surprised if they cost more than it takes getting a hi-resolution

with everything thinkable monitor nowadays...



Dimiter



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Dimiter Popoff                                    ++359/2/9923340

Transgalactic Instruments, Gourko Str. 25 b, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria

http://tgi.cit.bg       tgi@cit.bg     dimiter.popoff@firemail.de

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> From: Tom Hazlett <tomhaz@AOL.COM>

> To: Dimiter Popoff <tgi@cit.bg>

> Cc: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Subject: Re: Patients trigger border radiation alarms

> Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 11:44:58 +0000

>

>

> Dimiter,

> You can't do spectroscopy with a portal monitor.  

> 

> tgi@cit.bg wrote:

> 

> >Clearly there is little if any use of such detection - similar to, say,

> >speed limit signs every 10 metres all over the place.

> >

> > I wonder which of the short lived nuclides used for medical purposes is

> >considered a terrorist (or whatever) danger, though. Why do they not set

> >the devices to detect only nuclides of interest?

> >

> >Dimiter

> >

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> >Dimiter Popoff                                    ++359/2/9923340

> >Transgalactic Instruments, Gourko Str. 25 b, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria

> >http://tgi.cit.bg       tgi@cit.bg     dimiter.popoff@firemail.de

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> >

> >

>

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