Nuclear spectroscopy method and apparatus for digital pulse height analysis
US5067090A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 1, 1989 |
| Grant date | Nov 19, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 1, 2009 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01V5/101
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A nuclear spectroscopy method for pulse height analysis of an electrical signal emitted by a radiation detector and including nuclear events, such as pulses, whose amplitude is a measure of the energy of the gamma rays collected by said radiation detector, wherein (1) said signal is continuously converted to digital samples, at a given rate, and (2) each of the digital samples is processed so as to form a digital image of each detected pulse. The energy of each pulse is calculated by summing all sample values representative of this pulse and the sample just preceding the first sample representative of a pulse, as well as the sample just following the last sample representative of the same pulse.
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