A time-discriminated scintillator light output measurement method

Abstract

A time-discriminated scintillator light output measurement method is disclosed: The scintillator light generated by the sample under test under radiation source excitation is converted into an electrical signal; the electrical signal is amplified, and the rise time and pulse height of the digitized waveform are discriminated, acquired, and stored, or the long-gate integral value Qlong and the short-gate integral value Qshort are obtained. The pulse discrimination value PSD is obtained based on the long-gate integral value Qlong and the short-gate integral value Qshort; a two-dimensional distribution histogram of the low-light-output scintillator is generated with Qlong as the abscissa and PSD as the ordinate; the obtained two-dimensional distribution histogram is processed accordingly and projected onto the X-axis to obtain the scintillator energy spectrum; the full-energy peak in the energy spectrum is Gaussian fitted to obtain the center value and half-peak width, and then the light output and energy resolution of the scintillator are calculated. This invention can accurately detect and calibrate scintillator signals with low light output, with fast data acquisition speed and high output accuracy.

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