Radiation Detector In Your Smartphone

A smartphone camera can make you a walking gamma ray detector. Without needing any extra hardware, you could get a warning on your phone when you're approaching potentially harmful levels of gamma radiation.

They concluded that the phones have the processing power to detect gamma radiation with their built-in cameras and to measure levels on the phone. With the help of a program on a remote server, the app captures and measures an average energy level, then uses a model to figure out what types of radioactive material could be emitting the radiation. Basically, once your phone has been calibrated with the app, you'll have a radiation detector in your pocket.

The scientists are considering a commercial partnership to develop the app for the general public. In the meantime, there are other apps that can give you an estimate of the gamma radiation around you.

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Tungsten Alloy Leaf for Gamma Ray Shielding

As the high density and excellent radiation absorption for radiation, tungsten alloy leaf is widely used for medical radiation protection, such as gamma ray shielding, etc.

Compared to pure tungsten, tungsten alloy material is not so brittle, and could be machined into various shapes as per client’s drawing requirement. Therefore, it could be easily machined as per the beam stopper demand, which including simultaneous beam shaping and intensity modulation of therapeutic beams. To stop the gamma ray better, tungsten alloy usually is made into leaf shape as the following picture, also it could be machined into the size as L2000mm max. xW600mm max. xT0.02mm min. , and the components are usually 90WNiFe, 90WNiCu, 93WNiFe, 95WNiFe, 95WNiCu, 97WNiFe, for more information, you could visit the website tungsten alloy radiation shielding, and also could e-mail to sales@chinatungsten.com.

Distinguish Between Gamma Ray &X-Ray

Gamma rays are distinguished from X-rays by their origin. Gamma rays are produced in nuclear processes such as radioactivity, or electron-positron annihilation. X-rays are produced by accelerated electrons. There is an overlap between the highly energetic X-rays and the low energetic gamma rays.
In terms of energy gamma rays reside at the far end of the electromagnetic spectrum and can carry energies upward of roughly 100 keV.
To be able to observe gamma rays from objects in the Universe, the detector needs to be above the main part of the Earth's atmosphere because the atmosphere efficiently absorbs the gamma-ray photons. Early observations of gamma rays were done by airborne telescopes on-board airplanes and balloons, and were followed by dedicated satellites in Earth orbit.
Tungsten alloy material is very suitable material for the related radiation protection as its high density.