Welcome! You will find that there are a few fellow Hams here as well. Regarding Kr85 vacuum tubes (valves), if they are old, remember that Krypton85 has a...
Today I cruised the local medical complex again. This is the day that the PET-CT scanner-in-a-truck sets up for testing As usual, the dose rate on the external...
Radiologists at the hospital being VERY non-friendly in answering questions about Cs-137?? in their building. I know we have some practicing radiologists on...
... I'm not a radiologist, nor do I play one on TV, but it is often used in oncology for treatment of cancer. -- ... Chris Smolinski Black Cat Systems ...
OK. I found the Cs-137. It is a calibration chip. MY calibration chip. In the docking station for the IDENTIFIER is a weak Cs-137 chip used to keep the unit in...
Hi all, Got my CDV-700 in today (we won't discuss the UPS brokerage BS). It seems to work/test well & goes crazy with an old Precision scintillator test disk. ...
George, Is it possible that is from a radiation treatment device? Something like a gamma knife (I would imagine cobalt 60 or Irridium 192 would be the...
Nevermind, found it! http://www.technick.net/public/code/cp_dpage.php?aiocp_dp=cir_solorb_geigerprobe had to refine the Google search wording. sorry for being...
Hi Geo, was that really Cs-137? Normaly this source is just for calibrating their equipment, but if you read out that outside the "restricted" area it will be ...
Hm, my replay needed more than 1 1/2 hours... is it just because a long way to yahoo servers in the states? ... Von: GeigerCounterEnthusiasts@yahoogroups.com ...
Brian is that a probe I supplied? If so order a new one, no charge. George ... From: rmdscuba To: GeigerCounterEnthusiasts@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday,...
Actually that makes more sense than what I saw in the movie "Silkwood," I would imagine that hard scrubing, which causes abrasions which would drive particles...
I guess it made for good movie action but I'm not aware it's ever been done for real, other than debridding a wound. Sticky tape,warm water, soap and bagging...
Hi George, I ordered the kit(CD-777-1) from Ebay (DonL in KS?). Have to get off my ass & get the 0.5 MeV accelerator working to test the 715 & dosimeters...
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These may not be a tutorial on that yet. Glad to answer specific questions. Do you have a pulser? Look in HomeRadLab for some basic ideas. Geo ... From:...
Hello all...this is my first post. Thanks for allowing me into your group. I purchase quite a few ENI units, swap some of the old electrolytic capacitors with...
Doc, look inside the meter, into the area in the magnet gap where the coil travels. If it is full of flecks, the meter is toast. Meters with round magnets are...
I am still working on the pic programing I have the thing counting pulses and am thinking I should have the pic moving data right to the PC for a time/date...
Well, looks like we've answered the Cs-137 question, but anyway, assuming it wasn't your calibration device, it wouldn't be unusual to expect that Cs-137 might...
Tc-99m is the common isotope used in scans with a Gamma camera . It has a 140 keV Gamma Ray. Co-57 is used to test and calibrate the camera, it has a 122 keV...
Hi, I think there are only Co-60 inside radiotherapy sources. The energy is the double like Cs-137 and that´s sometimes too low... Electrical therapy systems...
vide is French for Empty. In Canada, they have 2 official languages, French and English. Like the USA has Spanish and English. Geo ... From: keuleeule@... ...
http://www.thermo.com/com/cda/product/detail/0,1055,22747,00.html See the link, I bought the sensors from one of these truck monitors last year. There are two...
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... A friend of mine got brain cancer. The standard rad therapy is to put your head in a helmet containing about 6000 Ci of Co60 and adjust the collimators to...