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Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 1986

Filed:

Dec. 22, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:

Joseph G Johnston, Newbury, OH (US);

Assignee:

Bicron Corporation, Newbury, OH (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T / ; G06M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
377 10 ; 377 28 ; 250374 ; 250388 ;
Abstract

A Geiger-Mueller tube-based radiation measurement device includes circuitry for the correction of the dead time losses associated with the Geiger-Mueller tube. As the event count rate rises, the transfer function (e.g., the closed loop voltage gain) of an operational amplifier responding to an event count rate signal is modified to compensate for dead time losses experienced at high count rates. Preferably, an analog switch controlled by the event count rate signal automatically sets the voltage gain of the operational amplifier at a level corresponding to the desired amount of dead time compensation required to provide an accurate measurement of actual events. The dead time correction circuitry disclosed herein finds practical application in the use of well-known analog rate meter circuits of the charge pump type.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Johnston, Joseph. (1986). Dead time compensation circuit for radiation detector (U.S. Patent No. 4617680). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/4617680

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