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Design of Wide-Range radiation measurement system using GM Tube and NaI(TI) Detector

GM Tube 및 NaI(TI) 검출기를 사용한 Wide-Range 방사선 측정 시스템의 설계

  • Ra, Seung-Tak (Dept. Electronics Engineering, Hanbat National University) ;
  • Lee, Joo-Hyun (Dept. Electronics Engineering, Hanbat National University) ;
  • Lee, Seung-Ho (Dept. Electronics&Control Engineering, Hanbat National University)
  • Received : 2017.05.19
  • Accepted : 2017.06.29
  • Published : 2017.06.30

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a wide-range radiation measurement system using GM Tube and NaI(TI) detector. The proposed system is designed as a small module optimized to control and count the detector signal of NaI(Tl) Detector and GM Tube. The radiation dose is measured in a wide-range 0.1uSv/h to 10mSv/h in conjunction with two detectors, and two detectors operate simultaneously at 10uSv/h to 100uSv/h, where the measurement interval overlaps. The radiation dose was selected using a wide-range radiation measurement algorithm that controls the on/off function of the detector in the appropriate interval for the overlapped radiation measurable interval. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed system, it has been confirmed that the measurement uncertainty of each section is measured as ${\pm}7.5%$ and it operates normally under ${\pm}15%$ of the international standard.

본 논문에서는 GM Tube 및 NaI(TI) 검출기를 사용한 Wide-Range 방사선 측정 시스템을 제안한다. 제안하는 시스템은 NaI(Tl) 검출기 및 GM Tube의 검출기 신호를 제어, 계수할 수 있게 최적화한 하나의 소형 모듈로 설계한 다. 방사선량은 2개의 검출기를 연동하여 Wide-range인 0.1uSv/h~10mSv/h 구간에서 측정되고, 측정구간이 중복되는 지점인 10uSv/h~100uSv/h에서는 2개의 검출기가 동시에 동작한다. 방사선량은 중첩된 방사선 측정 가능 구간에 대해 적정한 구간에서 해당 검출기 기능의 On/Off를 제어하는 Wide-Range 방사선 측정 알고리즘을 이용하여 선택 적용하였다. 제안된 시스템의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 공인시험기관에서 실험한 결과, 각 구간별로 측정 불확도가 ${\pm}7.5%$로 측정되어 국제 표준인 ${\pm}15%$ 이하에서 정상동작 됨이 확인되었다.

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