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- Patent Title: Radiation measuring apparatus and radiation measuring method
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Application No.: US15735389Application Date: 2016-07-22
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Publication No.: US10088579B2Publication Date: 2018-10-02
- Inventor: Daisuke Matsuura , Yoshikatsu Kuroda , Kei Gemba , Tadayuki Takahashi , Shin Watanabe , Shin'ichiro Takeda , Hiroo Yamamoto , Kazumasa Kosugi , Kazuhisa Yamamura
- Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD. , Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency , HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo JP Tokyo JP Shizuoka
- Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.,JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY,HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
- Current Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.,JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY,HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo JP Tokyo JP Shizuoka
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2015-147025 20150724
- International Application: PCT/JP2016/071642 WO 20160722
- International Announcement: WO2017/018363 WO 20170202
- Main IPC: G01T1/29
- IPC: G01T1/29 ; G01T1/24

Abstract:
A radiation measuring apparatus (20) includes a scatterer detector (10A), an absorber detector (10B) and a processing unit (12). Pixel electrodes (2) of the scatterer detector (10A) and the absorber detector (10B) are arranged such that a distance between centers of two neighbor pixel electrodes (2) is smaller than a mean free path of a recoil electron generated in the Compton scattering of an electromagnetic radiation. The processing unit (12) specifies and incidence direction of the electromagnetic radiation based on a recoiling direction to which the recoil electron recoils. In this way, an electron tracking-type Compton camera is realized which confines the incidence direction of the electromagnetic radiation by using the recoiling direction of the recoil electron in a Compton camera using a semiconductor detector.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180180747A1 RADIATION MEASURING APPARATUS AND RADIATION MEASURING METHOD Public/Granted day:2018-06-28
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