Radiation Solutions Inc. is a Canadian company specialising in nuclear instrumentation for the detection, measurement and analysis of low level ionising radiation from both naturally occurring and man made sources.
RSI’s focus is the design and manufacture of airborne and mobile systems using advanced digital signal processing technology. This technology provides a level of quality previously only attainable in laboratory equipment.
RSI’s philosophy is to work as closely as possible with customers in all aspects of the product life cycle including product requirements, application, training, support and product improvement. It is this philosophy that will enable RSI to supply industry leading software techniques and hardware components that not only meet, but exceed the customer’s requirements.
| Model Name | Crystal | Operation Mode | Features | Supplied With |
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| RS-120 Super-SCINT Handheld | 2.0 × 2.0 NaI crystal (6.3in3) | Search Mode Only |
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| RS-125 Super-SPEC Handheld | 2.0 x 2.0 NaI crystal (6.3in3) | Search and Assay |
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| RS-230 BGO Super-SPEC Handheld | 2.0 x 2.0 BGO crystal (6.3in3) | Search and Assay |
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RS-500 Airbourne Gamma Ray Spectrometer
The RS-500 is the world’s most advanced AIRBORNE gamma-ray spectrometer system utilizing state-of-the-art DSP/FPGA technology for previously unachievable levels of spectral data performance. RSI has added very advanced technologies to the RS-500 systems to make it at the very leading-edge of this type of equipment and making obsolete all current available technologies by a significant factor. Yet it is designed to be easy to interface and virtually foolproof to use making the RS-500 system the clear technological leader in this sophisticated field.
Features
- State-of-the-art design using FPGA/DSP technology
- Each crystal output is fully LINEARIZED permitting multi-crystal summing with no distortion
- NO requirement for radioactive sources for system setup
- NO requirement for radioactive sources for system validation
- UNLIMITED number of crystal summing
- >20× improvement on signal throughout compared to older systems
- Fully automatic gain stabilization on Natural Isotopes world wide
- Each crystal pack operates independently
- System readily integrates into users data systems
- Individual crystal data storage with NO increase in data volume
- Post-flight analysis techniques effectively eliminate re-flies for data problems
- Easy to integrate system with very straightforward User interfaces
Spectrometer
| Channels | 1024 |
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| Differential non-linearity | < 0.2% over top 99.5% |
| Integral non-linearity | < 0.01% over top 99.5% |
| Zero dead time | * |
| Baseline restoration | Digital (IPBR) ** |
| Pulse shaping | Digital (AOPS) *** |
| Pile-up rejection | Digital (< 40nS) |
| Pile-up contamination | < 0.1% @ 250kcps |
DPU (Detector Processing Unit)
| I/O | Ethernet |
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| Sample rate | 0.1-10 per sec |
| Timing | Internal/External |
| Gain stabilization | Automatic multi-peak |
| State of health | All critical parameters |
Detector
| RSX-1 | 1 × 4L NaI (Tl) |
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| RSX-2 | 2 × 4L NaI (Tl) |
| RSX-4 | 4 × 4L NaI (Tl) |
| RSX-54+1 × 4L NaI (Tl) | |
| Energy resolution < 8.5% **** | |
| Output | |
| Composite spectrum | YES |
| Individual spectra | YES |
| State of health | YES |
| Inputs | |
| Detector configuration | YES |
| Operational parameters | YES |
| Trigger signal | YES |
| Calibration data | YES |