Patent ID: 8513610

Claim:
Detector module for measuring one or more types of radiation, including X-ray, gamma ray, or nuclear particle radiation, comprising 1. a detection unit consisting of a scintillation detector and as photodetector providing electronic pulses with a known relation to the intensity of the light produced by the scintillation detector; 2. an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) coupled to the photodetector, the ADC converting the analog output signal of the photodetector to a digitized radiation signal; 3. an information processing device coupled to the ADC, the information processing device performing a method of calibrating, stabilizing and linearizing the digitized radiation signal; 4. a memory device for storing the position of the detector module; and 5. a communication interface which is at least one of a wireless communications interface, e.g. WLAN, WiMAX, WiFi, or Bluetooth, and wired communications interface, e.g. Ethernet interface or USB interface, and a combination thereof: wherein the information processing device performs, prior to the method of transmitting the calibrated, stabilized, linearized, and digitized radiation signal, a method of encoding one or more calibrated, stabilized, linearized, and digitized radiation signals into a predetermined data structure whereby the data structure comprises at least a header section and a data section.