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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2001
Filed:
May. 21, 1999
Raymond R. Raylman, Morgantown, WV (US);
Richard L. Wahl, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Other;
Abstract
A modular radiation detecting probe system includes a probe body having a handle portion and a distal portion to which an extension member is attached. The free end of the extension member is adapted to matingly attach and detach, one at a time, with various probe tips. An electronic signal acquisition system is disposed within the probe body and is coupled to receive a signal output from an attached probe tip. The acquisition system signal process the signal to discriminate between noise and a radiation signal detected by the probe tip. The probe body may include visual and/or audible devices to signal when the probe tip is adjacent a radiated area. The probe body may include a transmitted to transmit acquired signal data to an external signal processing unit, which may be a computer. Preferably the free end of the extension member includes a mechanism enabling identification of an attached probe tip such that the acquisition system may be normalized to compensate for different probe tip signal characteristics.