CAEN SyS now proposes radiation detection equipment for Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Neutron and X-ray radiation detection applications.
Let us focus here on Gamma-ray spectroscopy. While the company proposes various indoor and outdoor instruments for a variety of applications, it also has invested time and recourses on developing superior software to go along with the hardware.
A good gamma-ray spectrum analysis software is a key component in any radio-analytical or radiation measurement instrument. It has led the team of software developers to focus on:
Qualitative analysis
- Identification of the radioactive nuclides in the sample
- Resolving peak interferences
- Differentiation between useful information from spectrum structures and artifacts
- Sum peaks
- Compton edges and back-scattered peaks
- Escape peaks
- Annihilation peak
Qualitative analysis
- Quantifying the amount of specific (radioisotope) and\or total radiation in the sample (sample mass or sample volume)
Problems faced by any spectrum analysis software for gamma-ray spectrometry includes catering to:
- Wide energy dynamic range
- 40 keV to 3 MeV
- Different detector response
- Diverse energy resolutions
- Dissimilar "continuum" shapes
- Wide range of detectors
- Detector types and crystal sizes
- Complex detection efficiency response
- Influence of the measurement \ instrumental geometry
- Sizes
- Sample composition
- Some applications face odd situations
- High or rapidly changing count rates
- Varying continuum
- etc.
Setting objectives to cater to those spectrum analysis requirements has guided CAEN SyS developers in their endeavors to come up with superior performing software.
