Wearable Lifetime Personal High Sensitivity and Wide-Dynamic Range Measurement Apparatus and Method for Real-Time Radiation Exposure Measurement and Cancer Risk Management Due to Harmful Radiation in All Environments

摘要

A dynamic, wearable low-cost, personal high-sensitivity and wide-dynamic range measurement apparatus and method provide an accurate, objective and independent device for the real-time measurement and monitoring of an individual's career or lifetime exposure to known and unknown sources of harmful ionizing radiation, for real-time radiation exposure monitoring, overexposure warning and cancer risk management due to harmful radiation in all ambient environments. The measurement apparatus and method are wirelessly interfaced to a smartphone/controller or other host computer which provide a verification device to prevent an unauthorized use, a device to time-stamp and permanently data-log measured location based data using a smartphone/GPS data, and a device to predict and warn the individual when dangerous levels are actually approached, or will likely be approached or exceeded over the entire career or lifetime of the individual, and provide an access device for real-time estimates of the individual's risk of developing cancer or other threatening disease. Also, the measurement apparatus and method provide an additional device to allow these personal radiation exposure data to be made available via the Internet, and/or cloud storage, for digital data applications such as personal electronic health records and/or for future data mining, Internet, if Things, etc., applications.