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- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus for optically encoded position multiple-point scintillation detector using a single collecting light guide
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Application No.: US14122013Application Date: 2012-05-24
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Publication No.: US09678217B2Publication Date: 2017-06-13
- Inventor: Francois Therriault-Proulx , Luc Beaulieu , Louis Archambault , Sam Beddar
- Applicant: Francois Therriault-Proulx , Luc Beaulieu , Louis Archambault , Sam Beddar
- Applicant Address: CA Québec US TX Austin
- Assignee: Université Laval,Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
- Current Assignee: Université Laval,Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
- Current Assignee Address: CA Québec US TX Austin
- International Application: PCT/CA2012/000490 WO 20120524
- International Announcement: WO2012/159201 WO 20121129
- Main IPC: G01T1/10
- IPC: G01T1/10 ; G01T1/161 ; A61N5/10 ; G01T1/20

Abstract:
Various embodiments are described herein for a radiation dosimetry apparatus and associated methods for measuring radiation dose. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes multiple scintillating elements for detecting amounts of radiation dose at multiple points within a detection region. Each of the scintillating elements generates light in response to radiation interacting within their volume. A light guide combines the light generated by all of the scintillating elements as well as radiation-induced contaminated optical energy and transmits the combined light to a spectral analysis setup. Multi or hyper-spectral calibration technique allows calculating the dose or dose rate at the positions of the different scintillating elements. The calibration technique isolates the light produced by a given scintillating element from the other scintillating elements as well as any other source of radiation-induced contaminating light.
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