Re: Real-time radiation mapping

[Carson Riland <c-riland@worldnet.att.net>]

At 06:40 PM 8/21/96 +0000, you wrote:
>>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)
>
>The Imaging Survey Meter is being manufactured by Radiation Monitoring
>Devices in Watertown,Ma (617-926-1167).  The meter contains two cameras -
>one for nuclear imaging and one for video imaging.  The sensor is a
>segmented BGO crystal attached to a position-sensitive photomultiplier
>tube.  The energy range is between 0.1 and 1.5 MeV gammas.  A second
>article says the range is 120 keV to 2.4 MeV.
>
>S.A. McElhaney
>mcelhaneys@ornl.gov
>
>
The RMD device was developed by Glenn Knoll et. al..  Several articles on
the Imaging Survey Meter are available in the IEEE Nuclear Science
Proceedings for 1994 and 1995.

Carson Riland
c-riland@worldnet.att.net