167 results about "Stray radiation" patented technology

A non-contact infrared (IR) thermometer for measuring temperature from the surface of an object includes an IR radiation sensor attached to a heating element and a thermal shield having an interior surface positioned within the sensor's field of view that has a high emissivity. An electronic circuit controlling the heating element maintains the temperatures of the sensor and shield substantially close to an anticipated surface temperature of the object. The IR radiation sensor is further thermally coupled to a reference temperature sensor. An optical system positioned in front of the shield focuses thermal radiation from the object on the surface of the sensor, while the shield prevents stray radiation from reaching the sensor. Signals from the IR and reference sensors are used to calculate the object's surface temperature.

On-board ILS sensors for detecting illegal drugs and based on intracavity laser spectroscopy (ILS) are provided for detecting the presence of drugs and their metabolized by-product vapors in an enclosed space, such as a vehicle. The sensor comprises: (a) a laser comprising a gain medium having two opposed facets within a laser resonator and functioning as an intracavity spectroscopic device having a first end and a second end, the first end operatively associated with a partially reflecting (i.e., partially transmitting) surface; (b) a reflective or dispersive optical element (e.g., a mirror or a diffraction grating) operatively associated with the second end to define a broadband wavelength laser resonator between the optical element and the first end and to thereby define an external cavity region between at least one facet of the gain medium and either the first end or the second end or both ends; (c) the external cavity region being exposed to air in the enclosed space to enable any drugs or their metabolized by-product molecules to enter thereinto; (d) a detector spaced from the first end; (e) appropriate electronics for measuring and analyzing the detector signal; (f) a housing for containing at least the laser, the partially reflecting surface, and the optical element, the housing being configured to prevent escape of stray radiation into the enclosed space and to permit air from the enclosed space to continuously circulate through the external cavity region for analysis; and (g) means for driving the laser (e.g., electrical or optical). A method is provided for measuring concentration of drug vapors and their metabolized by-product vapors in the vehicle or other enclosed space employing the on-board sensor. The method comprises: (1) sensing any drugs and their metabolized by-product vapors in the enclosed space by the on-board sensor; and (2) providing a signal indicative of presence of any drugs or metabolized vapors.

A radiation therapy system optimized for treating extremities such as the breast has unique geometrical features that enable the system to deliver an accurately located prescribed dose to a target volume while eliminating or reducing the collateral dose delivered to the rest of the patient. An optional integral imaging system provides accurate target volume localization for each treatment session. Utilizing the effects of gravity on a prone patient maximizes the separation of a target volume within the breast to adjacent critical structures such as the chest wall, heart and lungs, thereby reducing long term complications not associated with the primary disease. A shielded interface surface between the radiation source and the patient reduces patient dose due to scattered or stray radiation. A shielded enclosure for the radiation sources combined with the shielded interface surface eliminates the need for primary shielding in the room and allows the therapy system to be used in a transportable, mobile facility.

An apparatus for projection radiography is set up for correcting stray radiation. The apparatus comprises an evaluation unit which evaluates the distribution of stray radiation, which is arranged in a tabular manner in a data memory, for correcting stray radiation, said distribution being initially determined with the aid of Monte-Carlo-Simulation which takes into account multiple interactions of the photons with the object which is to be analyzed.

The invention discloses a material emissivity measuring method based on an infrared thermometer and belongs to the technical field of thermal performance measurement of high-temperature opaque materials. The method disclosed by the invention aims to solve the problems that conventional material emissivity measuring methods are poor in measuring result accuracy, complex in use and low in measuring speed. The method disclosed by the invention comprises the following steps of firstly measuring the temperature of a blackbody furnace by using an infrared thermometer, obtaining the stray radiation energy received by the infrared thermometer through calculating, measuring the surface temperature of a test piece made from the to-be-measured material by using a thermocouple thermodetector and obtaining the true surface temperature of the test piece. According to the invention, five measuring temperature values are obtained through measuring the surface temperature of the test piece under the condition of five set emissivities of the infrared thermometer; five material emissivities are obtained through bringing the five set emissivities and the five measuring temperature values into a calculating formula; and the emissivity of the to-be-measured material is obtained through taking the average. The method disclosed by the invention is mainly applied to the technical field of emissivity measurement of the high-temperature opaque materials.

Fabrication of far infrared photoconductor arrays, especially for low background astronomy, is particularly challenging due to arrays' relatively large pixel size, susceptibility to stray radiation, and the requirement for low bias levels. A hybrid-far infrared photoconductor array as presented, provides a system and method for the development of large-format far IR arrays. The hybrid-far infrared array is provided with a blocking layer, situated in between a detecting layer and a readout layer, which allows detection of far infrared signals without complications based on readout glow. In particular, the readout glow, detector heating, and thermal mismatch between the readout and the detecting layer are addressed by careful selection of the materials for the blocking layer. The blocking layer is provided with an array of conductive vias passing through the bulk of the blocking layer in order to efficiently transmit electrical signals between the detecting layer and the readout layer.

An X-ray diagnostic facility has an X-ray device for generating X-rays, a digital X-ray detector for acquiring the X-rays and for converting them into an electrical signal sequence that has picture elements arranged in a first structure, an image system for processing the electrical signal sequence and a playback device, and a stray radiation grid having a second structure composed of highly absorbent material and highly X-ray transparent material in alternation precedes the X-ray detector. One of the first and second structures is irregularly fashioned.

The invention relates to the field of medical instruments, in particular to an X-ray protection device with an integrated structure for an angiography machine. The device comprises a protection screen unit, a protection curtain unit and a bedside sliding rail unit, wherein the protection screen unit is arranged on the protection curtain unit, and the protection curtain unit is fixed on the bedside sliding rail unit so as to enable the protection curtain unit and the protection screen unit to synchronously and horizontally move along a bedside. The protection device can synchronously move along with a bed, and in a moving process, the protection device is always in the best protecting state and close to a patient, so that the problem that the radiation, especially the secondary stray radiation caused by the rays reflected by the patient, can not be effectively shielded due to the movement of the bed surface of a conduit bed is effectively solved, and meanwhile, the problems of prolonged surgery time, increased surgery risk and the like that are caused by adjusting the protection screen unit during surgery in the prior art are effectively avoided.

The invention relates to a short-wave infrared lens stray radiation detection method comprising the following steps: measuring the stray radiation coefficient of an infrared lens, acquiring the optical structure and parameters of the infrared lens, and importing the optical structure of the lens into stray light analysis software to establish a light machine structure model of the lens; searching 'key surfaces' of the surfaces of the lens and 'lighting surfaces' corresponding to different light incidence angles according to the established light machine structure model; and detecting a part with both the 'key surfaces' and the 'lighting surfaces' in the established model, showing that the established model has a stray radiation transmission path at the angle, and taking a corresponding suppression measure according to the detected stray radiation transmission path. By using the method, stray radiation produced by the infrared lens can be analyzed more comprehensively and accurately, a more-targeted accurate suppression measure can be taken in the later period, and the influence of stray radiation on the infrared lens can be eliminated to the greatest degree.

A radiation thermometer utilizing an off-focus telecentric lens arrangement in chemical vapor deposition reactors. An object assembly of one or more optical components is positioned at a distance equal to its focal length from an aperture stop. The aperture stop is dimensioned so that the chief rays are substantially parallel with the optical axis of the object assembly, and so that the rays that pass through the aperture stop define a narrow solid angle about the chief rays. The off-focus telecentric arrangement thus configured is focused at infinity, but is utilized to capture radiation from a relatively proximate target (e.g., within a couple meters) that is out of focus. The capture of collimated radiation from the target diminishes the contribution of stray radiation, particularly with targets having a highly specular surface.

A system and method for determining the stray radiation condition of a projection system, is presented herein. The invention includes providing a detector with a detector aperture coincident with the image plane of the projection system, measuring a reference parameter in accordance with the projection beam intensity, measuring a stray radiation parameter of an image of an isolated feature and calculating a coefficient representative of the stray radiation condition of the projection system based on the measured stray radiation parameter and the reference parameter. The extent of the detector aperture fits within the extent of a notional shape, which is defined by first scaling down the shape of the feature and subsequently displacing each line element constituting the edge of the scaled down shape, parallel to itself, over a distance of at least λ/NA in a direction perpendicular to that line element.

The present invention discloses a black body emissivity measuring device based on control background radiation, and a black body emissivity measuring method based on control background radiation. The measuring device comprises a to-be-measured black body; a heat radiation ring located at one side of an opening of the to-be-measured black body; and an infrared radiation thermometer for measuring an acquired radiation signal. A water cooling diaphragm is arranged between the heat radiation ring and the infrared radiation thermometer, and is used to reduce the stray radiation. The black body emissivity measuring device based on the control background radiation analyzes the influence of the temperature change of the heat radiation ring and the black body on a measurement result, and verifies the feasibility of the method applied to the spaceborne calibration black body emissivity on-orbit calibration.

The embodiments described herein generally relate to methods of noise compensation for proper temperature detection in thermal processing chambers and devices for achieving the same. Methods can include determining noise produced by a lamp zone and extrapolating the noise from the detected photocurrent. Devices can include a processing chamber, a substrate support disposed in the processing chamber, the substrate support having a high thermal mass, a pyrometer below the substrate support and oriented to view radiation emitted by the substrate and a controller configured to subtract a time invariant noise component and a time variant noise component from the pyrometer signal.

A system for detecting and classifying small amounts of explosives and other controlled substances while rejecting confounders, including a source/detector array formed of a plurality of sources and a plurality of detectors, a signal processor coupled to the source/detector array for processing data received from the detectors, a classifier coupled to the signal processor for classifying data received from the signal processor according to a plurality of algorithms, a maximal rejection classifier coupled to the classifier; and a declarative decision module coupled to the maximal rejection classifier for rendering an accurate decision regarding the contents of the object is provided. The apparatus includes an enclosure, a shield layer disposed within the enclosure, a cavity disposed within the shield layer, a plurality of neutron sources and a detection array disposed within the cavity, and a transport mechanism for moving objects through the cavity past the sources and detection array. The cavity has one or more turns which preclude a straight line trajectory through the cavity. The shield layer is water-filled to prevent stray radiation from exiting the enclosure. The use of multiple lower power neutron sources and the particular geometry of the enclosure provide a compact, relatively lightweight explosive detection system which is practical for use in airports and other public locations.

In an X-ray detector and method for applying a stray radiation grid onto an X-ray detector having detector elements arranged in a matrix that form a detector surface having detection regions sensitive to X-rays and less sensitive intermediate regions, a basic structure for the stray radiation grid is built up over the detector surface directly on the X-ray detector with a rapid prototyping technique and is subsequently coated or filled with a material that is highly absorbent for X-radiation. An absorbent structure thus arises that lies over the less sensitive intermediate regions of the detector surface. Moiré disturbances are avoided in the X-ray image exposure and the detective quantum efficiency (DQE) is increased.

The invention provides a system and a method for testing stray radiation of a radio frequency transmitter. The system is a near-field test system, and a test field is a microwave anechoic chamber; a servo system is a one-axis precision rotary table installed in the microwave anechoic chamber, and an antenna of a radio frequency transmitter to be tested is arranged on the precision rotary table. Aradio frequency subsystem comprises a vector network analyzer. The vector network analyzer receives radiation signals of a radio frequency transmitter antenna to be tested through a test probe to complete amplitude and phase parameter test of the radio frequency transmitter antenna to be tested. The test method adopts a field test method. According to the invention, spherical near-field sampling of an electromagnetic field is realized by using a one-axis rotary table in cooperation with a probe array.

The invention relates to the field of wireless product testing, and specifically relates to an automatic test method for stray radiation. The automatic test method comprises the steps of receiving electromagnetic wave signals which are transmitted by a tested object in an operating state; analyzing the electromagnetic wave signals, detecting stray signals in the electromagnetic wave signals, and measuring the frequency and the field intensity of the stray signals; and finding out transformation parameters from a transformation parameter list according to the frequency and the field intensity, and calculating equivalent omnidirectional radiation power of the stray signals according to the transformation parameters. The automatic test method provided by the invention enables a stray radiation test to be more convenient and more efficient, the test efficiency is improved, and the labor input and the field occupation time of a test project are reduced.

The invention discloses an analysis method for stray radiation of an infrared measurement system. The analysis method comprises the steps of: determining stray radiation sources in the system, wherein the total number of the stray radiation sources is N, and the stray radiation sources comprise thermal radiation of an optical element and thermal radiation of a mechanical structure; for the i-th stray radiation source, calculating radiation power phi which is radiated on a radiation surface and capable of being received by a detector; analyzing the transmission process of the phi, and calculating an irradiance E of the phi on the detector; and calculating the total irradiance E of the N stray radiation sources on the detector, wherein the N is an integer greater than 1, and the i=1,... N. The analysis method can quantitatively analyze the relationship between stray radiation and temperature, so as to provide theoretical guidance for the suppression of stray radiation at different temperatures. Furthermore, the measurement precision of the system can be effectively improved by effectively suppressing stray radiation at different temperatures.