Localising and identifying radionuclides via energy-resolved angular photon responses
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment(2023)
Abstract
A technique for the in-situ localisation of radioactivity is described whereby the energy-resolved angular photon response of a collimated inorganic scintillation detector is used to derive the spatial arrangement of a variety of radioactive source configurations. The influence of photon radiation (X-and gamma ray) incident on the collimated detector is expressed mathematically, by way of a sinc transform embedded to a dynamic linear regression model, to increase the spatial accuracy of the localisation. This approach is tested experimentally with two pairs of like radionuclides, two pairs of different combinations of radionuclides and three different radionuclides to demonstrate its combined isotopic discrimination and spatial localisation capabilities. A fit based on the model referred to above is observed to reproduce the data for the combined X-and gamma-ray regions of interest effectively. This allows for increased resolution via interpolation between the data which is observed to improve location accuracy significantly. This research is relevant to applications in autonomous robotic exploration tasks and for the characterisation of contaminated environments associated with nuclear legacies and radiological emergencies.
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radionuclides,angular photon responses,energy-resolved
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