Advanced Radiation Detector Development Mercuric Iodide, Silicon with Internal Gain, Hybrid Scintillator/Semiconductor Detectors. Comprehensive Summary Report, 1976-1985

摘要

Accomplishments are reported in the development of a compound semi-insulator mercuric iodide (HgI sub 2 ) for nuclear radiation detection and spectroscopy, early lung cancer detection and localization in the uranium miner/worker population, computer digital image processing and image reconstruction research, and a concept for multiple, filtered x-ray computed tomography scanning to reveal chemical compositional information. Another area of interest is the study of new advances in the area of silicon detectors with internal gain (''avalanche''). (ERA citation 10:049529)