Patent ID: 9029784
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: G01T

Abstract:
1. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored thereon for execution by a computer to perform a method for examining detected light emissions of a scintillator interacting with ionizing radiation from a radioactive source, the method including generating plural pulse height spectral data sets, wherein: said scintillator is a core-valence luminescence scintillator that is capable, when interacting with said ionizing radiation from said radioactive source, of emitting light that includes gamma emissions and neutron emissions; each said pulse height spectral data set is based on electrical pulses generated by a light sensor that are indicative of said light that is received by said light sensor and that is emitted by a core-valence luminescence scintillator when interacting with said ionizing radiation from said radioactive source; said generating of said plural pulse height spectral data sets includes generating a first said pulse height spectral data set and generating a second said pulse height spectral data set; the first said pulse height spectral data set is based on electrical pulses generated by said light sensor that are indicative of unfiltered said light that is emitted by said core-valence luminescence scintillator when interacting with said ionizing radiation from said radioactive source; the second said pulse height spectral data set is based on electrical pulses generated by said light sensor that are indicative of filtered said light that is emitted by said core-valence luminescence scintillator when interacting with said ionizing radiation from said radioactive source; the unfiltered said light that is emitted by said core-valence luminescence scintillator when interacting with said ionizing radiation from said radioactive source includes said gamma emissions by said core-valence luminescence scintillator, and includes said neutron emissions by said core-valence luminescence scintillator; the filtered said light that is emitted by said core-valence luminescence scintillator when interacting with said ionizing radiation from said radioactive source includes said gamma emissions by said core-valence luminescence scintillator, and does not include said neutron emissions by said core-valence luminescence scintillator.