Radiation detection device and a radiation detection method

Claim 1

A radiation detection device for surveying the distribution of a distributed radiation source to derive the location of a plurality of radiation sources comprising, a layer of scintillation material in the path of the radiation emissions from the radiation source for receiving the radiation to provide light indications, said layer of scintillation material includes a front face adjacent the radiation source, a plurality of photodetectors disposed in view of said scintillation material for detecting the light indications in said scintillation material, a data processor connection to said photodetectors, said data processor including storage means, comparator means, a storage reviewing means, connecting means, and a comparator match indication means, said storage means including, a plurality of response data records from said radiation detection device when said scintillation material was engaged by emissions from a known radiation source location with the known radiation source location data for each response, said connecting means connecting said photodetectors to said comparator means to connect response data from an unknown radiation source location with said comparator means, said connecting means connecting said storage reviewing means to said storage means to review said stored data, and said connecting means connecting said comparator means to said storage means to match said response data from an unknown radiation source location with a particular piece of stored response data from a known radiation source location, said match indication means connected to said comparator for indicating a match and reading out the stored location data.

Claim 7

A method of locating and displaying radiation sources from a distributed radiation material at unknown locations comprising the steps of: a. placing at least one known source of radiation in locations with a positioning means, b. detecting with detecting means reaction data from said known source of radiation in each known location of step (a), c. placing sources of radiation in a body at unknown locations, d. detecting reaction data with said detecting means from said radiation sources of unknown distribution in the body, e. providing a known location of each source of radiation in the body that was detected in step (d) by comparing the detected reaction data from each radiation of step (d) with detected reaction data from step (b), and f. combining the known locations of each source of radiation in the body detected in step (d) to provide a visual display of the sources of radiation in said body in the final form of an image of the radiation sources in the body.

Claim 8

A method of locating and displaying radiation sources from a distributed radiation material at unknown locations comprising the steps of: a. placing at least one known source of radiation in locations with a positioning means, b. detecting with detecting means reaction data from said known source of radiation in each known location of step (a), c. placing sources of radiation in a body at unknown locations, d. detecting reaction data with said detecting means from said radiation sources of unknown distribution in the body, e. providing a known location of each source of radiation in the body that was detected in step (d) by comparing the detected reaction data from each radiation of step (d) with detected reaction data from step (b), and f. combining the known locations of each source of radiation in the body detected in step (d) to provide a visual display of the sources of radiation in said body in the final form of an image of the radiation sources in the body.