US20090050812A1 - Detection of Ionising Radiation - Google Patents

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US20090050812A1
US20090050812A1 US11/990,453 US99045307A US2009050812A1 US 20090050812 A1 US20090050812 A1 US 20090050812A1 US 99045307 A US99045307 A US 99045307A US 2009050812 A1 US2009050812 A1 US 2009050812A1
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Sajad Haq
Douglas Beverley Stevenson King
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Jonathan Alexander Silvie
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  • This invention relates to apparatus and methods for the detection of ionising radiation.
  • ionising radiation is used in the conventional sense to mean alpha particles, beta particles, x-rays, gamma radiation, neutrons and protons.
  • ionising radiation There are many instances where it is required to detect ionising radiation.
  • medical or scientific staff and those working in other facilities where radioactive material is used carry personal dosimeters to monitor the amount of radiation to which they have been exposed. It is also important routinely to monitor such facilities against inadvertent leakage of radiation.
  • detectors such as Geiger tubes, liquid scintillators with an attached photo multiplier or photodiode, and solid state detectors are used. Although such devices exist, they tend to be separate instruments that are not readily incorporated into structures or fabrics.
  • the static devices are not readily capable of detecting more than just the presence and magnitude of the radiation signal. They do not accurately locate the source of the signal and this has to be done separately by a portable device.
  • this invention provides a detector for detecting ionising radiation, said detector comprising:
  • each waveguide there may a single scintillator associated with each waveguide or there may be several scintillators spaced along the length of the waveguide to provide an extended detection region.
  • scintillator and waveguide there are several different possible configurations of scintillator and waveguide; in one arrangement said waveguide is an optical fibre and said scintillator is a solid scintillator element through which said optical fibre passes, whereby light emissions in said scintillator element are transmitted to said detector by said fibre.
  • the refractive index of the scintillator element is less than that of the optical fibre.
  • At least part of the external surfaces of the scintillator element and the optical fibre are provided with a coating of reflective material.
  • the reflective material may be selected from gold, silver, platinum, indium and aluminium.
  • optical fibres passing through said scintillator element and in optical contact therewith, and means for detecting said light emissions.
  • said optical fibres may be disposed orthogonally in rows and columns, or orthogonally in three dimensions (x, y, z). Where the fibres are disposed in rows and columns, successive planes of rows and columns may be stacked.
  • the optical fibre may follow a helical or serpentine path through said scintillator element.
  • the optical fibre may be provided as a woven fabric element.
  • the scintillator element may be of spherical shape, with said optical fibre wrapped into a ball configuration.
  • said at least one waveguide comprises a hollow fibre containing a scintillator material.
  • the scintillator material may comprise a liquid, gel or solid. Where it is a liquid or gel, the detector may include means for selectively introducing and withdrawing said scintillator material from said hollow fibre. In this way the scintillator material may be removed or replaced with another material where different radiation is to be detected, or where the fibres are to be filled with a liquid or gel shielding material.
  • light emissions can be transmitted to the detector in different ways. In one scheme, the light emissions may be transmitted to said detector down the central space of the tube by total internal reflection off the inner walls of said fibre. To assist this at least part of the inner surface of the fibre may be provided with a coating of reflective material.
  • the light emissions may be transmitted to said detector through the fibre wall by total internal reflection within the fibre wall, and to assist this at least part of the external surface of the fibre may be provided with a coating of reflective material.
  • suitable reflective materials include gold, silver, platinum, indium and aluminium.
  • the fibres may be arranged in a wide variety of layouts and shapes as described above.
  • the detector may include means for detecting light emissions at opposite ends of said waveguide and means responsive to the timings of the light emissions to determine the location of the incident radiation along the length of the waveguide.
  • the fibres are arranged in two or three dimensions this allows the incidence to be detected in two or three dimensions.
  • the detector may include a moderator material to moderate or slow the radiation incident on said scintillator material.
  • the moderator material may be contained in a hollow fibre adjacent the scintillator material.
  • the scintillator material may be responsive to at least one of alpha particles, beta particles (electrons), x-ray radiation, gamma radiation, neutrons, protons.
  • alpha particles beta particles (electrons)
  • x-ray radiation gamma radiation
  • neutrons protons.
  • suitable scintillator materials is well known to those skilled in the art.
  • the detector may include a plurality of respective scintillators or groups thereof and a plurality of associated waveguides, with each scintillator or group thereof being responsive to a selected radiation.
  • the scintillators or groups thereof may be arranged in layers, with each layer being responsive to a predetermined radiation.
  • the detector may include means for injecting light into the optical waveguide, and means for detecting and processing of the detected light signal to determine a condition of the optical fibre.
  • the detector may allow optical data to be transmitted along the waveguide at a non-conflicting wavelength.
  • heating or coolant medium may be passed down adjacent hollow fibres.
  • this invention provides a fibre composite structure including a matrix material, a plurality of structural fibres, and at least one optical waveguide embedded therein, with a scintillator in optical contact with said waveguide and selected to emit light in response to ionising radiation, and a detector for detecting light emissions transmitted from said scintillator by said waveguide.
  • the structure includes a plurality of scintillators and a plurality of optical waveguides embedded in said matrix.
  • this invention provides a flexible textile material comprising textile fibres and incorporating therein at least one optical waveguide, with a scintillator in optical contact with said waveguide and selected to emit light in response to ionising radiation, and a detector for detecting light emissions transmitted by said waveguide.
  • this invention provides a method of detecting and locating of the incidence of radiation along an elongate path or structure which comprises providing at least one elongate optical waveguide having disposed therealong at least one scintillator element, and a detector for detecting light emissions transmitted by said waveguide from said scintillator element or elements.
  • this invention provides a method of detecting and locating emission of radiation from a space which comprises surrounding at least part of said space with a plurality of fibres each having scintillator elements associated therewith and detecting emission of light from said scintillator elements at the ends of said fibres.
  • the detector of this invention may be used in conjunction with a radiation shield.
  • the shield may be passive in a sense of being selected to reflect or absorb one or more preset types of radiation to provide a shielding effect, or it could be adapted to change its shielding spectrum according to the nature of the radiation that is detected by the radiation detector.
  • the detector layer may be connected to a processor which monitors the output from the detector to determine the particular radiation types, intensities etc incident upon the detector and then adaptively controls the shielding characteristics to selectively absorb or reflect one or more of the detected radiation types.
  • the detector may determine a 2-D image of the incidence and intensities of any radiation types reaching the detector.
  • a detector layer made up of fibres containing or contacting said scintillator materials in a fibre composite lay up, and beneath the detector there may be a shielding layer made up of hollow fibres each containing or fillable with a radiation shielding material.
  • the fibres may be connected to a suitable manifold or pump system that is operable to selectively introduce or withdraw different shielding materials to or from the hollow fibres, with the shielding material or materials being selected on the basis of the detected radiation.
  • an active or adaptive shield in which the shielding material is actively selected and supplied to provide its shielding effect in direct response to the detected radiation.
  • the shield material can be selected according to the nature, and intensity of the incident radiation.
  • this invention provides a combination comprising a detector as described above in combination with a radiation shield means, wherein the detector is operable to monitor and/or control the effectiveness of the radiation shield means.
  • the shield means is adapted to allow the radiation shielding characteristics thereof to be adjusted and the combination preferably further includes a processor responsive to the output of said detector to control the radiation shielding characteristics of the shield to at least reduce the transmission of radiation therethrough.
  • the invention also extends to a radiation shield device comprising a plurality of hollow fibres filled with or fillable with one or more radiation shielding materials.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a first embodiment of radiation detector in accordance with this invention in which a fibre waveguide passes though a scintillator material;
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a two-dimensional radiation detector in accordance with this invention.
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a helical arrangement
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a woven arrangement
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a spherical arrangement
  • FIG. 6( a ) and 6 ( b ) are respective schematic views of alternative embodiments of radiation detector in accordance with this invention in which the scintillator material is contained within a hollow fibre;
  • FIG. 7 is a schematic view of a helical arrangement:
  • FIG. 8 is a schematic view of an orthogonal X, Y, Z arrangement
  • FIG. 9 is a schematic view of a two-dimensional arrangement which allows a liquid or gel scintillator material to be removed or replaced in the hollow fibres;
  • FIG. 10 is a schematic view of a two-dimensional arrangement in which the location of the incidence of the array may be detected
  • FIG. 11 is a section view through a fibre composite structure in accordance with this invention comprising orthogonally arranged layers of fibres, and
  • FIG. 12 is a schematic view of an embodiment of active radiation shielding device in accordance with this invention.
  • this shows a fibre sensor with a scintillator provided on the outside for detecting radioactive sources.
  • a solid scintillator 10 of low refractive index has a solid optical fibre 12 running through it in optically transmissive contact.
  • the fibre and the scintillator have an external aluminium coating 14 to prevent the escape of light and also to prevent the admission of external light.
  • the scintillator material is selected in accordance with the particular radiation to be detected so that it provides a detectable light emission when radiation of that type is incident. When the scintillator is bombarded by suitable radiation, it will emit light that enters the fibre and becomes trapped by total internal reflection. Light photons exit through both ends of the fibre.
  • the fibre 12 may be glass or plastic, for example poly methyl methacrylate.
  • the fibre 12 can be narrow or quite thick—of the order of a millimetre.
  • the photons are electrically detected at each end of the fibre using a suitable detector 16 which may be an avalanche photodiode, an active pixel sensor, or a charge coupled device, some distance away out of the field of the radiation.
  • the scintillator can be chosen to respond to alpha, beta (electron), x-ray, gamma, neutron or proton radiation.
  • the aluminium coating 14 behaves well at the UV end of the spectrum. Alternative materials include silver for longer wavelengths.
  • the coating 14 may also carry a scratch resistant layer of plastic or a suitable paint for protection.
  • the scintillator can be surrounded by a hydrogenous material, notably polythene or water to moderate or slow down high energy neutrons.
  • photons from either end of the fibre can be used; the time difference between the photons detected at each end on the detectors 16 may be determined using a processor 18 to thereby determine the location of the incident radiation.
  • the sensor may be quite short with a single block of solid scintillator, or it may be very long with scintillator blocks spaced along the length, or the entire fibre length encased in scintillator material. In another arrangement, not shown, the sensor may comprise multiple fibres in a parallel bundle for redundancy and efficiency of detection.
  • the fibres 12 can be mounted in the scintillator 10 in an x-y plane with the fibres running in orthogonal rows and columns and respective detectors (not shown) at each end. In this way, detection can be provided over an extended area.
  • a cube may be made up of successive stacked x-y planes or it may be made up of orthogonally arranged x, y, z direction fibres.
  • the 2-D array or the 3-D structure can be embedded in a common scintillator.
  • a graded scintillator profile may be arranged by stacking successive x-y planes in which the scintillator material is different between planes, for detecting different types of radiation at different planes. For example an arrangement could be made to detect beta particles at an outer layer, gamma radiation towards the middle and neutrons towards the centre. Likewise layered structures may be built for the detection of thermal, epithermal, and fast neutrons.
  • the fibre may follow a helical or serpentine path through the scintillator material 10 . Due to the losses associated with tight bending radii the number of turns within the scintillator material should be limited.
  • the fibre may traverse the scintillator material 10 in a woven pattern.
  • FIG. 5 shows another embodiment where the fibre 12 is wrapped to make a fibre ball 20 around and contained in the scintillator 10 .
  • the fibre sensor is provided with a scintillator material on the inside.
  • a scintillator material on the inside.
  • FIG. 6( a ) there is a hollow fibre 22 that is mirrored on the inside with an aluminium coating 24 and the remainder of the internal space filled with either a liquid, a gel or solid scintillator 26 .
  • incidence of the appropriate radiation on the scintillator material causes generation of a photon which is caused to traverse to the end of the fibre through total internal reflection of the coating on the inner wall of the fibre.
  • the hollow fibre 22 acts purely as a structural tube and not as a light guide.
  • an optical fibre 28 is provided with an external mirror coating 30 of aluminium or a suitable optical cladding of refractive index less than that of the fibre to support total internal reflection.
  • the scintillator gel 32 or liquid of a similar refractive index to that of the fibre wall is contained within the fibre 28 .
  • the fibres may be mounted in an x-y plane similar to FIG. 2 or in a helical structure ( FIG. 7 ) or in a 3-D cube ( FIG. 8 ).
  • a fibre ball can be provided.
  • the scintillator material is contained within the tube and so no external scintillator material is required.
  • optical fibres containing scintillator material are arranged in an x-y plane and connected to respective supplier and return chambers 42 , 44 by means of respective inlet and outlet manifolds 46 .
  • the scintillator material within the fibres may be removed or exchanged for a different material.
  • the array of FIG. 9 may be tuned to allow it to detect radiation of different form by pumping out the existing scintillator material and replacing it with a different scintillator material.
  • the manifolds will also contain the photon detectors at the end of each fibre.
  • the array may also have one or more reservoirs of selected liquid or gel shielding materials that can be pumped into the fibres after removal of the scintillator material, to effect shielding of the structure.
  • the arrival times of the photons at the ends of each fibre 40 is detected by respective detectors in arrays 48 , thereby to determine the exact location of the radiation event that caused the emission of the photon. It will be appreciated that this enables the x-y coordinates of a radiation source to be detected by the processors. This arrangement is particularly useful in detecting leakage of radiation or radiation hotspots.
  • FIG. 11 a conventional composite fibre lay-up 58 is overlaid by detector fibres 60 filled with scintillator material and arranged in x-y fashion. This provides detection integrated in the existing composite structure.
  • the innermost layer would typically be used to detect thermal neutrons.
  • the layer would be made up of fibres containing a scintillator material and surrounded by polythene.
  • the polythene moderator could be replaced or supplemented by the use of auxiliary fibres carrying a liquid moderator.
  • Middle layers of the structure would typically be used with the detection of epithermal neutrons, high energy neutrons and gamma protons.
  • a fibre with an internal mirror coating of silver, platinum, gold or possibly indium are advantageous because these elements resonate at the epithermal energies and will greatly improve the detection efficiency.
  • the outer layer may be used for the detection of alpha and, if required, beta particles (electrons).
  • the order of the layers may be adjusted and the scintillator in a given layer may be dual purpose, also acting as a moderator.
  • the array may embody redundant fibre for test purposes or reasons of reliability. Additional fibres may be placed around the detector to maintain a given temperature by allowing pumping of coolant or heating fluid through them. Additional hollow fibres may also be placed around the detector to provide thermal insulation and protection.
  • the detector is made up as a flexible mat; such a mat may be used in non-destructive testing in a manner similar to a flexible photographic plate.
  • the mat could be laid over the structure to be tested and the structure then exposed to a flash of x-rays from the side opposite the mat, with the position of holes or cracks being evident from the locations of radiation detected on the mat.
  • the clothing could be in the form of the bodysuit, gloves, etc.
  • the detector may also be encased in a suitable matrix material such as concrete or other structural or shielding material so as to detect or monitor the condition of an enclosed object.
  • a suitable matrix material such as concrete or other structural or shielding material so as to detect or monitor the condition of an enclosed object.
  • the reactor could be housed within a building structure in which the fibre detectors are embedded in the walls of the building.
  • the detector may be embedded in the external surface of a building or vehicle or vessel at risk from exposure to radiation.
  • the detector can also provide monitoring along the length of an elongate structure such as the interior of a submarine hull, or alongside a road or down a mineshaft, and provide information on the location of any radiation incident thereon.
  • the detectors can also be used in conjunction with active or passive shielding devices to monitor the effectiveness of the shielding and to detect the nature of the radiation to allow the shielding to be correspondingly adjusted.
  • a composite structure is made up of a plastics material matrix (not shown) in which are distributed hollow fibres 100 e.g. of glass.
  • the fibres are arranged into layers, an outer detector layer 102 and an inner shielding layer 104 .
  • Each layer has a respective manifold and pump system 106 , 108 , which allows preset material in liquid, or gel form to be introduced into the hollow fibres 100 from respective reservoirs 110 , 112 .
  • the construction of the detector layer is similar to that of previous embodiments and allows respective scintillation materials to be introduced into and withdrawn from the fibres or groups thereof so that they act as detectors of the respective radiation.
  • the manifolds 106 , 108 are designed to allow different materials to be selectively introduced into and withdrawn from the hollow fibres.
  • the scintillation manifold 106 also includes detectors (not shown but similar to detectors in arrays 48 in FIG. 10 ) for detecting scintillation occurring in the detector layer 102 due to the incidence of radiation of the relevant type.
  • the detectors are preferably operable to detect the position of the incidence of radiation so that a two-dimensional map of incidence and radiation type may be determined.
  • a processor 114 receives the outputs from the detectors associated with the manifold 106 and controls the manifold and pumps of the detector manifold to tune or render the detection layer or selected regions or sub-layers thereof sensitive to different radiation types.
  • the processor also controls the manifold and pump system 108 for the shield materials.
  • the processor 112 is programmed to detect incidence of radiation of the various types and then to cause a shield material (or combination thereof) optimised for shielding of the radiation of that type or types to be introduced into the hollow fibres, at least in the area of incidence of that radiation.
  • the invention also extends to an active shield arrangement per se, comprising a fibre arrangement of hollow fibres and means reintroducing selectively into said fibres a predetermined shielding material or materials.

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