Improving the detection limit in lung counting with a segmented HPGe detector.

Autor: Jutila H; Accelerator Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland; Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland. Electronic address: henri.m.jutila@jyu.fi., Greenlees P; Accelerator Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland; Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland., Torvela T; STUK - Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Jokiniemenkuja 1, FI-01370 Vantaa, Finland., Muikku M; STUK - Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Jokiniemenkuja 1, FI-01370 Vantaa, Finland.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine [Appl Radiat Isot] 2024 Aug; Vol. 210, pp. 111377. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 25.
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2024.111377
Abstrakt: A segmented High-Purity Germanium (HPGe) detector with a thin front segment together with various active and passive shield configurations was simulated with the aim of reducing the level of background events in lung counting applications. Eight different detector models were tested in a Geant4 simulation environment in a scenario where inhaled 241 Am activity was deposited in the lungs of an ICRP adult reference computational phantom. In lung counting measurements, the Compton continuum in the spectrum is generated by the natural and man-made radionuclides inside the human body and the natural background radiation from the environment. The reduction in Minimum Detectable Activity (MDA) using the segmented HPGe detector combined with an active shield compared to a model with a single germanium crystal was investigated. A reduction in MDA up to 30% and 66% was obtained for internal and external sources, respectively. The results show that the detection limit and/or the measurement time in lung counting can be reduced using such a detector configuration. Furthermore, combining the segmented HPGe detector with an active shield would be particularly useful in field measurements.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
(Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
Externí odkaz: