Efficient hardware architecture for embedded radionuclide identification

Author

Farias, M.S. ; Nedjah, Nadia ; de Macedo Mourelle, Luiza

Author_Institution

Dept. of Instrum., Nucl. Eng. Inst., Brazil

fYear

2013

fDate

Feb. 27 2013-March 1 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Radioactivity is the spontaneous emission of energy from unstable atoms. Radioactive sources have radionuclides. Radionuclide undergoes radioactive decay and emits gamma rays and subatomic particles, constituting the ionizing radiation. The gamma ray energy of a radionuclide is used to determine the identity of gamma emitters present in the source. This paper describes a hardware architecture to perform radionuclide identification. We also show a comparison between the performance of the proposed architecture and other solutions.

Keywords

gamma-ray detection; radioactive decay schemes; radioactive sources; radioisotopes; embedded radionuclide identification; gamma emitter; gamma ray emission; gamma ray energy; hardware architecture; radiation ionization; radioactive decay; radioactive source; radioactivity; spontaneous energy emission; subatomic particle; Atomic measurements; Clustering algorithms; Computer architecture; Equations; Hardware; Mathematical model; Performance gain;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems (LASCAS), 2013 IEEE Fourth Latin American Symposium on

Conference_Location

Cusco

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4897-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LASCAS.2013.6519032

Filename

6519032