University of California

Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC

William W Craig

Simon E Labov

Bruce H Hasegawa

Klaus-Peter Ziock

Michael J Pivovaroff

A network of radiation detection instruments, each having a small solid state radiation sensor module integrated into a cellular phone for providing radiation detection data and analysis directly to a user. The sensor module includes a solid-state crystal bonded to an ASIC readout providing a low cost, low power, light weight compact instrument to detect and measure radiation energies in the local ambient radiation field. In particular, the photon energy, time of event, and location of the detection instrument at the time of detection is recorded for real time transmission to a central data collection/analysis system. The collected data from the entire network of radiation detection instruments are combined by intelligent correlation/analysis algorithms which map the background radiation and detect, identify and track radiation anomalies in the region.

Cellular telephone-based radiation detection instrument

Cellular telephone-based wide-area radiation detection network

Cellular telephone-based radiation sensor and wide-area detection network

Imaging of radiation sources located in a subject is explored for medical applications. The approach involves using grazing-incidence optics to form images of the location of radiopharmaceuticals administered to a subject. The optics are 'true focusing' optics, meaning that they project a real and inverted image of the radiation source onto a detector possessing spatial and energy resolution.

Biomedical nuclear and X-ray imager using high-energy grazing incidence mirrors

Growing community of inventors

Pittsburg, CA, United States of America

William W Craig