Patent Document ID: 10078151
Application ID: 13913966
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for detecting, identifying and/or characterizing nuclear and/or radiological material in a container, vehicle, or on a person, which is part of a flow of traffic, goods, or pedestrians, and which is monitored, at places such as ports, border crossings, airports, nuclear facility perimeters, public events, public transport facilities, roads, bridges or tunnels, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing at least one detector of a given detector type, which is capable of detecting radiation events being interrelated to nuclear or radiological material; (b) bringing said at least one detector in the vicinity of the container, vehicle or person to be monitored; (c) detecting radiation events being interrelated to said container, vehicle or person to be monitored; (d) providing timing information of the at least one detector to a time stamping unit, the time stamping unit assigning each detected radiation event an individual time stamp in order to generate a time pattern of the detected radiation events; and (e) passing an output of the time stamping unit to a time analysis unit, the time analysis unit analyzing said time pattern with respect to time correlation structures and, in order to identify a presence and/or a characteristic of the nuclear or radiological material, outputting measurement results in the form of one or more time correlation parameters of radiation emitted by the nuclear or radiological material in the container, vehicle, or on the person to be monitored and detected by the at least one detector of the given detector type, wherein the timing information from said at least one detector is fed to a time stamping unit or a time analysis unit after having been pre-processed by a signal processing unit.