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Analytical-numerical formula for estimating the characteristics of a cylindrical NaI(Tl) gamma-ray detector with a side-through hole

  • Thabet, Abouzeid A.;Badawi, Mohamed S.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제54권10호
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    • pp.3795-3802
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    • 2022
  • NaI(Tl) scintillation materials are considered to be one of many materials that are used exclusively for γ-ray detection and spectroscopy. The gamma-ray spectrometer is not an easy-to-use device, and the accuracy of the numerical values must be carefully checked based on the rules of the calibration technique. Therefore, accurate information about the detection system and its effectiveness is of greater importance. The purpose of this study is to estimate, using an analytical-numerical formula (ANF), the purely geometric solid angle, geometric efficiency, and total efficiency of a cylindrical NaI(Tl) γ-ray detector with a side-through hole. This type of detector is ideal for scanning fuel rods and pipelines, as well as for performing radio-immunoassays. The study included the calculation of the complex solid angle, in combination with the use of various points like gamma sources, located axially and non-axially inside the through detector side hole, which can be applied in a hypothetical method for calibrating the facility. An extended γ-ray energy range, the detector, source dimensions, "source-to-detector" geometry inside the side-through hole, path lengths of γ-quanta photons crossing the facility, besides the photon average path length inside the detector medium itself, were studied and considered. This study is very important for an expanded future article where the radioactive point source can be replaced by a volume source located inside the side-trough hole of the detector, or by a radioactive pipeline passing through the well. The results provide a good and useful approach to a new generation of detectors that can be used for low-level radiation that needs to be measured efficiently.

Fuzzy Measure를 이용한 화재감지기의 기본설계

  • 백동현;김기화
    • 한국화재소방학회논문지
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    • 제10권3호
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    • pp.19-28
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    • 1996
  • 본 논문은 Fuzzy Measure를 이용한 화재감지기의 사고판정을 결정하는 방법을 제시한 것으로 Belief measere를 기본으로하여 Dempster의 결합 Rule을 사용하였다. 감지기에서의 화재 판정 결정은 화재(F), 비화재(N)의 2가지로 하였으며, 이를 판정하기 위해 현재 사용되고있는 열, 연기감지기에 대한 정정값에 대해 Fuzzy Rule을 적용하여 시뮬레이션 하였다. 그 결과 Fuzzy Rule의 수를 많이 적용할수록, 최종동작은 Bel(F)의 값을 높게 할수록 확실한 화재 판별이 가능함을 입증하였다.

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랙크식 물류창고 조기 화재감지를 위한 최적 화재감지기 설치방법에 관한 실험연구 (An Experimental Study on the Optimum Installation of Fire Detector for Early Stage Fire Detecting in Rack-Type Warehouses)

  • 최기옥;김동석;홍성호
    • 한국안전학회지
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    • 제32권2호
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    • pp.38-45
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    • 2017
  • This paper is an experimental study to find an optimal detection method for detecting fire early in a rack-type warehouse stored with goods. In this study, we constructed rack-type structure with the fourth floor of 13.5 m high and conducted fire experiments which were to measure flow of heat/smoke in rack-type structure and response time of fire detectors. The detectors used at experiments were fixed temperature type detectors, rate of rise detectors, photoelectric smoke detectors, air sampling smoke detectors and flame detectors. The used ignition sources are n-heptane fire for response of heat detection and cotton fire for response of smoke detection. The fixed temperature type detectors, rate of rise detectors and photoelectric detectors were installed to every rack level respectively. The results show that the rate of rise detector should be installed every 2 levels and photoelectric smoke detector should be installed every 4 levels for the early stage fire detection. Air sampling smoke detectors can detect fire early in response to control of sensitivity, but there is a problem in false alarm. The fixed temperature detector is not suitable for early stage fire detection in warehouse and flame detector not worked if flame is not visible, so it need to install combination with other detector.

다층구조 엑스선 검출기를 이용한 이중에너지 조영제 영상의 물질 구분에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Material Decomposition of Dual-Energy Iodine Image by Using the Multilayer X-ray Detector)

  • 김준우
    • 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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    • 제44권5호
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    • pp.465-471
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    • 2021
  • Dual-energy X-ray imaging (DEI) techniques can provide X-ray images that a certain material is suppressed or emphasized by combining two X-ray images obtained from two different x-ray spectrum. In this paper, a single-shot DEI, which uses stacked two detectors (i.e., multilayer detector), is proposed to reduce the patient dose and increase throughput in angiography. The polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) and aluminum (Al) were selected as two basis materials for material decomposition, and material-specific images are reconstructed as a vector combination of these two materials. We investigate the contrast and noise performance of material-decomposed images using iodine phantoms with various concentrations and diameters. The single-shot DEI shows comparable performances to the conventional dual-shot DEI. In particular, the single-shot DEI shows edge enhancement in material-decomposed images due to the different spatial-resolution characteristics of upper and lower detectors. This study could be useful for designing the multilayer detector including scintillators and energy-separation filter for angiography purposes.

An Improved Proton Recoil Telescope Detector for Fast Neutron Spectroscopy

  • Chung, Moon-Kyu;Kang, Hee-Dong;Park, Tong-Soo
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제5권3호
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    • pp.191-201
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    • 1973
  • MeV 영역의 속중성자분광을 위해 재래의 radiator system을 개량하여 ringshaped vertical radiator와 cone-shaped horizontal radiator를 공용한 특수한 recoil proton radiator assembly를 사용함으로서 energy 분해능의 저하없이 검출효율을 높이도록 recoil Proton telescope detector를 설계ㆍ제작하였다. 이 검출기에는 입사중성자속에 대한 Si(ti) 검출기의 직접노출을 피함으로서 background를 줄일수 있도록 입사중성자차폐부도 고안 내장되어 있다. 이 개량된 recoil proton telescope detector의 검출효율 및 energy 분해능을 중성자 energy 1-15 MeV에 대하여 radiator system과 Si(Li) 검출기사이의 거리변화에 따라 이론적인 계산치로 도출ㆍ표시하였으며, 실험적검증의 예로서 이 거리를 29cm로 하고 중성자 energy를 14.1 MeV로 하였을 때의 검출기의 제특성측정결과를 얻어 분석하였다. 측정결과의 분석에 의하면 이론에서 추정된것처럼 혼합형 radiator system을 사용하였을 때의 검출 효율은 단일 radiator system을 사용한 재래식 검출기의 검출효율의 2.2배의 증가를 보인데 반하여 energy 분해능의 저하는 불과 30%, background의 증가는 약40% 말만임을 알수가 있었다. 또한 측정에 의한 14.1 MeV 중성자에 대한 energy 분해능은 3.9% FWHM었는데, 이는 이논적인 3.7% FWHM와 거의 완전한 일치를 보이고 있음도 입증되였다.

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유방조직등가 팬텀을 이용한 Screen-Film과 Digital Mammography에서의 평균 유선선량 (Comparison of Average Glandular Dose in Screen-Film and Digital Mammography Using Breast Tissue-Equivalent Phantom)

  • 신귀순;김정민;김유현;최종학;김창균
    • 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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    • 제30권1호
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    • pp.13-23
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    • 2007
  • 유방촬영장치가 screen-film system에서 최근에는 빠른 속도로 digital system으로 교체되고 있는 추세이다. Digital system이 screen-film system에 비해 여러 가지 장점을 가지고 있다. 그 중의 하나가 digital detector가 screen-film보다 X선 흡수효율이 더 높으며, digital system 중에서도 direct digital detector가 indirect digital detector보다 흡수효율이 높다. 이에 입각하면 촬영 시 적은 선량을 주어도 되기 때문에 환자피폭선량이 감소한다. 그러나 임상 방사선사들이 느끼는 바는 달랐다. 따라서 이번 연구에서는 screen-film mammography system, computed mammography system, indirect digital mammography system, direct digital mammography system에서 glandularity가 30%, 50% 및 70%인 세 종류의 유방조직 등가팬텀을 이용하여 평균유선선량(AGD)을 측정하여 다음과 같은 결론을 얻었다. Screen-film보다 digital detector가 X선 흡수효율이 높지만, glandularity가 30%인 경우의 AGD는 오히려 SFM에서 가장 낮았고, 그다음 CM, IDM, DDM 순으로 증가되었다. 자동노출장치로 설정하였지만 두께나 glandularity에 따라 target/filter의 조합이 바뀌지 않고 Mo/Mo으로 계속 사용된 SFM에서는 AGD가 급격히 증가되었다. 따라서 높은 glandularity를 가진 두꺼운 팬텀을 위한 고에너지 촬영에서는 SFM에서 AGD값이 가장 높았고, 저에너지 촬영에서는 DDM에서 AGD값이 가장 높았다. 그러나 target/filter의 조합이 다양하게 바뀐 CM에서는 두께나 glandularity에 따른 AGD의 곡선이 가장 완만하게 증가하였으며, AGD값이 가장 낮았다. 이와 같이 두께와 glandularity가 증가함에 따라 target/filter의 조합이 Mo/Mo에서 Mo/Rh으로 더 증가하면 Rh/Rh으로 바뀌는 것이 AGD의 증가량이 적어 환자의 피폭선량 측면에서 바람직하다. 따라서 유방촬영에서 환자의 피폭선량을 평가하기 위해서는 검출효율 외에도 여러 가지 촬영 변수가 중요한 역할을 한다.

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IoT Enabled Smart Emergency LED Exit Sign controller Design using Arduino

  • Jung, Joonseok;Kwon, Jongman;Mfitumukiza, Joseph;Jung, Soonho;Lee, Minwoo;Cha, Jaesang
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • 제6권1호
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    • pp.76-81
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    • 2017
  • This paper presents a low cost and flexible IoT enabled smart LED controller using Arduino that is used for emergency exit signs. The Internet of Things (IoT) is become a global network that put together physical objects using network communications for the purpose of inter-communication of devices, access information on internet, interaction with users as well as permanent connected environment. A crucial point in this paper, is underlined on the potential key points of applying the Arduino platform as low cost, easy to use microcontroller with combination of various sensors applied in IoT technology to facilitate and establishment of intelligent products. To demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the system, devices such as LED strip, combination of various sensors, Arduino, power plug and ZigBee module have been integrated to setup smart emergency exit sign system. The general concept of the proposed system design discussed in this paper is all about the combination of various sensor such as smoke detector sensor, humidity, temperature sensor, glass break sensors as well as camera sensor that are connected to the main controller (Arduino) for the purpose of communicating with LED exit signs displayer and dedicated PC monitors from integrated system monitoring (controller room) through gateway devices using Zig bee module. A critical appraisal of the approach in the area concludes the paper.

Exposure Index를 이용한 이동형 디지털 X선 장치의 흉부촬영 적정노출조건에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Proper Chest Exposure Conditions of Mobile Digital X-ray Unit by Exposure Index)

  • 김재인;이양섭;장동수;정민철;배승호;이관섭;하동윤
    • 대한디지털의료영상학회논문지
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    • 제13권3호
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    • pp.139-144
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this report is recommending a standard indicator which reflects the radiation exposure that is incident on a detector after every exposure event and that reflects the noise levels present in the image data. The experiment was performed with mobile digital X-ray unit and used a acrylic phantom for exposure index measurement. Exposure modality was kVp, mAs, SID. After every exposure, make a data sheet for characteristic curve of detector response. The equipment performed Mobile digital X-ray unit provide the user with values ralated to the incident exposure(air kerma)to the digital detector. They are showed as a logarithmic function shaped. As a result, DEI means a relative measure of exposure to the detector, as compared to the expected exposure for a particular anatomical view. Radiographic technique is the combination of factors used to exposure an anatomical part to produce a high quality radiography and technique charts used most commonly by radiographers to produce consistently exposure level which patient dose can be kept acceptably low.

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Assaying of SNM using Simultaneous Detection of Fission Neutrons and Gammas by Employing a Novel Phoswich Detector

  • Sonu;Mohit Tyagi;A. Kelkar;A. Sahu;M. Sonawane;P.S. Sarkar;A. Pandey;D.B. Sathe;G.D. Patra;T. Vincent;S.G. Singh;R.B. Bhatt
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제55권7호
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    • pp.2662-2669
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    • 2023
  • For the precise measurements of special nuclear materials (SNM) including Pu and Am isotopes, we have used phoswich detector combination of two single crystal scintillators of Gd3Ga3Al2O12:Ce and CsI:Tl. High detection efficiency and sensitivity along with high figure of merit for the discrimination of these phoswich detectors ensures the detection and discrimination of thermal neutrons and gammas from spontaneous fission of Pu and other isotopes in presence of high gamma background. Using this detector, the low energy gammas, which is stopped completely in 1mm thick disc of GGAG, can be also discriminated from high energies gamma and shows linearity in wide range of sample quantities. By changing only the appropriate shielding, the similar setup was used for thermal neutron detection and shows a very good linearity over wide range. The quantity of a test sample was also calculated accurately by using the measured calibrated plot.