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A Sensitive Neutron Counter with a High-Pressure Ionization Chamber Filled with BF3 Cover

A Sensitive Neutron Counter with a High-Pressure Ionization Chamber Filled with BF3

Polish Journal of Medical Physics and Engineering
Volume 13 (2007): Issue 3 (September 2007)
By: Mieczysław Zielczyński,  Zdzisław Rusinowski and  Piotr Tulik  
Open Access
|Dec 2008
Abstract

Abstract

A ionization chamber, filled with 10BF3 and operating in a pulse mode, was investigated as a possible sensitive pocket detector for detection of neutrons at low flux densities. The chamber is 85 mm long and 19 mm in diameter. The measured sensitivity of the chamber placed near the human body (in the belt), without any additional moderator was of the order of 1 pulse/n cm-2 in the radiation field of a 252Cf source.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10013-007-0014-5 | Journal eISSN: 1898-0309 | Journal ISSN: 1425-4689
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Language: English
Page range: 157 - 162
Published on: Dec 30, 2008
Published by: Polish Society of Medical Physics
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
neutron counter,
ionization chamber,
BF3
Related subjects:
Medicine,
Biomedical engineering,
Physics,
Technical and applied physics,
Medical physics

© 2008 Mieczysław Zielczyński, Zdzisław Rusinowski, Piotr Tulik, published by Polish Society of Medical Physics
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License.

Volume 13 (2007): Issue 3 (September 2007)