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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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> 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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