Guard efficiency compensation system and method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9297909
APP PUB NO 20150301194A1
SERIAL NO

14630047

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A liquid scintillation counting system employs a guard detector efficiency compensation system to adjust sample event counts to compensate for a non-ideal guard which may not detect all cosmic and environmental gamma background noise events. The system and method determines counts of events detected coincidently by a guard detector subsystem and a sample detector subsystem in one or more energy regions as well as counts of events that are detected by the sample detector subsystem and not coincidently detected by the guard detector subsystem for the respective energy regions. The system and method calculates correction values for the respective energy regions based on the counts of coincident and non-coincident events and the guard efficiency values associated with the respective energy regions, using, for example, a quenched or unquenched sample. The system then applies the calculated correction values to counts for the respective energy regions, to produce corrected sample event counts.

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  • PERKINELMER HEALTH SCIENCES, INC.

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Harazin, Richard R Lombard, US 8 172

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