Abstract:
An ionization chamber for measuring an energy dose having a chamber wall with an electromagnetic radiation absorption characteristic equivalent to air, tissue or water and a neck part and being closed on all sides, an air compensation orifice; an outer electrode formed by a conductive coating on the inner surface of the chamber wall, an inner electrode and an electrically conductive ring surrounding the neck part of the chamber wall is disclosed. The chamber wall consists of at least 85% by weight of a base material containing polyacetal in a mixture with up to 20% by weight of polytetrafluoroethylene having additives consisting of one or more of calcium oxide, aluminum oxide, aluminum and carbon. The conductive coating on the inner surface of the chamber wall consists of a material containing one or more elements having an atomic number greater than 8.
Abstract:
A system and method for cross-calibrating a radionuclide at two separate locations (A and B) includes the use of a portable ion chamber configured to fit within a dose calibrator, which ion chamber receives a syringe containing a known volume of a sample of a radionuclide. The portable ion chamber and dose calibrator with the syringe is transported to another location, where a second syringe, identical to the first containing a second sample of the same volume of the same radionuclide is measured in a second dose calibrator.
Abstract:
A detector of ambient radon concentrations in real time comprising a housing, at least three conductive elements one of which being grounded, another being biased with respect to the other conductive elements, and at least one other conductive element being connected in series with an amplifier circuit and a counter circuit, respectively. In operation, when an energized alpha particle enters the housing, it ionizes air molecules, thus producing ions which are collected by the conductive element by virtue of the potential between that element and the other elements. The voltage pulse is amplified by the amplifier circuit and then counted.
Abstract:
A technique for calibrating an ionization detector by simulating the presence of particles of combustion. In one embodiment a test probe is employed extending into the chamber. The probe may be partially conductive and partially non-conductive and be either rotatable or able to be withdrawn or partially withdrawn to vary ionization current. In another embodiment the source may be moveable to alter the ionization current. In still another embodiment there is provided the temporary distortion of one electrode to change the geometry of the chamber to thereby effect ionization.