Design and Fabrication of a Dosimeter for Measuring Ionizing Radiation
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Abstract
This article presents the results of a research on design and fabrication of a dosimeter for measuring ionizing radiation using detector Geiger-Muller. The microcontroller ARM STM32F103 – based device is programmed with some working modes. The collected signal from the detector is converted, displayed on LCD and restored in external memory. The device can also be interfaced with a computer via serial port for transferring data. Through measuring level of radiation in natural environment and a source of artificial radioactivity, testing operations and surveying Poisson distribution, it shows that our device operates stably, fits to the theory and it can be used for radiation safety monitoring application as well as a laboratory equipment.
Keywords: Radiation measurement equipment, Geiger-Muller counter.
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