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Gamma-Probe for Locating the Source of Ionizing Radiation

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Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA) for Young Scientists (BICA 2017)

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The radionuclide diagnostics unit, described in the article, detects pathological changes of organs and systems of a person. The device is a portable detector of gamma rays that allows to diagnose superficial malignancies using radiopharmaceuticals injected into the body. The gamma probe uses crystal LaBr3:Ce as a scintillator and silicon photomultiplier SiPM as a photodetector. The focus of this paper is the improvement of the amplifier, which originally produced misshapen pulses unsuitable for energy discrimination. Using LTSPICE, a free circuit-modelling program, we performed extensive simulation of both the SiPM and the amplifier. From this work, we determined that high input impedance and unnecessarily high gain were the source of the distortion. Another amplifier better suited to the SiPM parameters was simulated and then prototyped.

The original version of this chapter was revised: For detailed information please see correction chapter. The correction to this chapter is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63940-6_51

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This work was supported by Competitiveness Growth Program of the Federal Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute).

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    Timur Khabibullin, Andrey Starikovskiy & Anastasia Tolstaya

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Khabibullin, T., Starikovskiy, A., Tolstaya, A. (2018). Gamma-Probe for Locating the Source of Ionizing Radiation. In: Samsonovich, A., Klimov, V. (eds) Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA) for Young Scientists. BICA 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 636. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63940-6_37

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