Performance of a characteristic X-ray camera to identify contamination of radioactive cesium
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Kobayashi, Shingo; Shinomiya, Takayuki; Goto, Yuichi; Terakado, Yasuo; Yamanishi, Akio; Kitamura, Hisashi; Tanimoto, Kazuo; Uchihori, Yukio
- Source
- 2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC) Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2015 IEEE. :1-2 Oct, 2015
- Subject
- Bioengineering
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Nuclear Engineering
Signal Processing and Analysis
Cameras
X-ray imaging
Sensitivity
Contamination
Gamma-rays
Cesium
Batteries
- Language
The lightweight, high sensitivity and low-price camera to image Cs-137 contamination in environment has been developed. These three merits have not been realized by recent gamma cameras and Compton cameras. The camera images Cs-137 distribution by detecting the characteristic X-rays from it instead of gamma-rays. We have investigated the performance of the characteristic X-ray camera (CXRC) in detail and the specification is summarized.