Solid State Nuclear Track Detectors (SSNTDs) are well known for the detection of ionizing radiation through track formation of heavy ionizing particles. The LR-115 detector is a commonly used SSNTD for the detection and measurement of Rn and its progeny. Several techniques of track revelation are known but, the chemical etching technique is the most frequently used in which tracks can be made v...

Radiation-induced cavitation or nucleation for liquids in metastable states allows one to utilize this phenomenon for nuclear particle detection. Indeed, Glaser (1958) received the Nobel Prize for his work on the bubble chamber wherein bubbles are formed in a thermally superheated liquid when nuclear particles strike the metastable fluid. This realization has resulted in the development of so-c...

isotopic and nuclear techniques play an important role in food and agriculture, health and industry. in the agricultural sciences and food technology sectors, recent research has elucidated the new potential application of radiation for microbial decontamination, food preservation, improve the nutritional quality of  foods  and effectively utilise its potential as human food or animal feed. the...

Ultrasound-mediated optical tomography (UOT) is a hybrid technique that is able to combine the high penetration depth and high spatial resolution of ultrasound imaging to overcome the limits imposed by optical scattering for deep tissue optical sensing and imaging. It has been proposed as a method to detect blood concentrations, oxygenation and metabolism at depth in tissue for the detection of...

Acoustomotive optical coherence elastography (AM-OCE), a dynamic and internal excitation optical coherence elastography technique, is reported. Acoustic radiation force was used for internal mechanical excitation, and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography was used for detection. Mechanical properties of gelatin tissue phantoms were measured by AM-OCE and verified using rheometry results....

A number of noninvasive fiber optic optical technologies are under development for real-time diagnosis of neoplasia. We investigate how the light scattering properties of cervical cells are affected by changes in nuclear morphology, DNA content, and chromatin texture, which occur during neoplastic progression. We used a Cyto-Savant computer-assisted image analysis system to acquire quantitative...

We have just concluded the study of radiation interaction with matter in which the basic mechanisms of charged particle, neutron and gamma interactions were discussed separately. A topic which makes use of all this information is the general problem of detection of nuclear radiation detection. Although this subject properly belongs to a course dealing with experimental aspects of applied nuclea...