Slides for Statistics, Precision, and Solid Angle 22.01 – Intro to Radiation October 14, 2015 22.01 – Intro to Ionizing Radiation Precision etc., Slide 1 Solid Angles, Dose vs. Distance • Dose decreases with the inverse square of distance from the source: 1 퐷표푠푒 ∝ 푟2 • This is due to the decrease in solid angle subtended by the detector, shielding, person, etc. absorbing the radiation 22.01 – Intro to Ionizing Radiation Precision etc., Slide 2 Solid Angles, Dose vs. Distance • The solid angle is defined in steradians, and given the symbol Ω. • For a rectangle with width w and length l, at a distance r from a point source: 푤푙 Ω = 4푎푟푐푡푎푛 2푟 4푟2 + w2 + 푙2 • A full sphere has 4π steradians (Sr) 22.01 – Intro to Ionizing Radiation Precision etc., Slide 3 Solid Angles, Dose vs. Distance http://www.powerfromthesun.net/Book/chapter02/chapter02.html • Total luminance (activity) of a source is constant, but the flux through a surface decreases with distance Courtesy of William B. Stine. Used with permission. 22.01 – Intro to Ionizing Radiation Precision etc., Slide 4 Exponential Gamma Attenuation • Gamma sources are attenuated exponentially according to this formula: Initial intensity Mass attenuation coefficient 흁 Distance through − 흆 흆풙 푰 = 푰ퟎ풆 material Transmitted intensity Material density • Attenuation means removal from a narrowly collimated beam by any means 22.01 – Intro to Ionizing Radiation Precision etc., Slide 5 Exponential Gamma Attenuation Look up values in NIST x-ray attenuation tables: http://www.nist.gov/pml/data/xraycoef/ Initial intensity 흁 Distance through − 흆 흆풙 푰=푰ퟎ풆 material Transmitted intensity Material density 22.01 – Intro to Ionizing Radiation Precision etc., Slide 6 Exponential Gamma Attenuation Look up values in NIST x-ray attenuation tables: http://www.nist.gov/pml/data/xraycoef/ Initial intensity 흁 Distance through − 흆 흆풙 푰=푰ퟎ풆 material Transmitted intensity Material density For compound materials, just add their total attenuation coefficients: 휇 휇 휇 = + +⋯ 푡표푡푎푙 1 2 1 2 22.01 – Intro to Ionizing Radiation Precision etc., Slide 7 Mass Attenuation Coefficients http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/XrayMassCoef/ComTab/blood.html Public domain, from U.S. NIST. 22.01 – Intro to Ionizing Radiation Precision etc., Slide 8 Statistics, Counting, Uncertainty Confidence increases with counting time and counting rate: 푐표푢푛푡 푟푎푡푒 = 푐표푢푛푡푖푛푔 푡푖푚푒 Count rates are expressed in counts per time plus or minus standard deviations: 푐표푢푛푡푠 푝푒푟 푚푖푛푢푡푒 = 퐶푃푀 ± 22.01 – Intro to Ionizing Radiation Precision etc., Slide 9 Statistics, Counting, Uncertainty Remember to measure a background count rate with its own uncertainty: 퐶푃푀푏 푏 = 푡푏 Express total uncertainties in quadrature: 퐶푃푀푡표푡푎푙 퐶푃푀푏 퐶푃푀푛푒푡 = 퐶푃푀푡표푡푎푙 − 퐶푃푀푏 푛푒푡 = + 푡푡표푡푎푙 푡푏 22.01 – Intro to Ionizing Radiation Precision etc., Slide 10 MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu 22.01 Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and Ionizing Radiation Fall 2015 For information about citing these materials or our Terms of Use, visit: http://ocw.mit.edu/terms..