• DocumentCode
    833200
  • Title

    A Pressurized Multiwire Proportional Chamber for Neutron Imaging

  • Author

    Director, Bruce ; Kaplan, Selig ; Perez-Mendez, Victor

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Nuclear Engineering University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
  • Volume
    25
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1978
  • Firstpage
    558
  • Lastpage
    561
  • Abstract
    A pressurizable neutron-sensitive multi-wire proportional chamber has been constructed to test the effect of increased gas density on image resolution. The chamber has dimensions of 25 cm × 25 cm and is pressurizable to 4 atm. With a single-plate converter the thermal-neutron detection efficiency was 6.3% for gadolinium and 2.3% for boron-10. For a four-fold increase in chamber pressure the overall resolution improved more than a factor of two for boron, but relatively little for gadolinium. The effects of cathode biasing is also discussed.
  • Keywords
    Aluminum; Boron; Cathodes; Image resolution; Laboratories; Neutrons; Radiology; Spatial resolution; Testing; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TNS.1978.4329371
  • Filename
    4329371
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=833200