Re: Real-time radiation mapping

[schoenho@via.at]

At 12:28 21.08.1996 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Dear "Radsafers"
>
>I am looking for any information you may have regarding a potentially state-
>of-the-art equipment which is either still in development stage or has been 
>recently released to the market place.... Those who have read an article on 
>this piece of equipment (but unfortunately do not remember 
>make/manufacturer), tell me that the equipment uses (at a minimum), some kind 
>of "video" camera/dector tied in to a personnel computer. The user directs 
>the "video camera/detector" in the direction of the potentially contaminated 
>area. The area being viewed by the camera/detector shows up on the PC with 
>the radiation areas being highlighted in color - the different radiation 
>levels being color coded, or perhaps showing up as gradations of the same 
>color (e.g. red)
>
>Such a piece of equipment could be used to remotely detect hot spots, or give 
>real time information on radiation areas/levels with the added feature of 
>being able to actually "vizualize" the extent of the problem.
>
>Anybody have any information on such an equipment (or similar), whether 
>currently in operation someplace, or as something still being developed ? If 
>you have some information please get in touch with me at my e-mail address 
>below.         
>
>Sreela Ferguson 
>Sreela.Ferguson@swec.com
>
>======================================================================

Please, radsafers, distribute the news about the video-radiation detector
via radsafe, because I am sure not only I, but thousands of other health
physicists would like to know about the miracle, which will replace our
instruments by which we very time consuming and using a lot of personal
check our rooms for contamination, take soil samples in the field to
determine their radionuclides content, check our food for the Chernobyl
contamination etc. What an exciting outlook for the future - all specialists
will be replaced by a simple camera, operated by persons who do not need to
have a specialized training, but can distinguish different colours. 

Sorry, but I simply do not understand how such information can be created!

Franz
Schoenhofer
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