Method and system for determining a radiation dose from polarized signals

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12498495-B2
Application number	US-202318558677-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 3, 2022
Priority date	May 3, 2021
Publication date	Dec 16, 2025
Grant date	Dec 16, 2025

Abstract

A method and system for determining a radiation dose is provided. The method can include receiving at least one polarized signal from a radio-luminescent element and determining a degree of linear polarization and an angle of linear polarization of the at least one polarized signal based on at least one predetermined polarization transmission axis. The system can include a polarization sensitive sensor for capturing at least one polarized signal from a radio-luminescent element; and a processor. The processor can be configured to: receive the at least one polarized signal; and determine a degree of linear polarization and an angle of linear polarization of the at least one polarized signal based on at least one predetermined polarization transmission axis.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A method for determining a radiation dose, comprising:
receiving at least one polarized signal from a radio-luminescent element; determining a degree of linear polarization and an angle of linear polarization of the at least one polarized signal based on at least one predetermined polarization transmission axis; and determining the radiation dose based on the degree of linear polarization and the angle of linear polarization of the at least one polarized signal.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining the radiation dose based on the degree of linear polarization and the angle of linear polarization of the at least one polarized signal and a predefined correction factor.

3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising capturing the at least one polarized signal with a polarization sensitive sensor.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the radio-luminescent element is inherently polarized.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the radio-luminescent element comprises Cerenkov radiation.

6 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a directionality of the Cerenkov radiation based at least on the degree of linear polarization and the angle of linear polarization of the Cerenkov radiation.

7 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
correcting the directionality of the Cerenkov radiation based on the polarized acquired signal and the predefined correction factor describing directionality of Cerenkov light.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the degree of linear polarization and angle of linear polarization of the radio-luminescent element are spatially determined.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the radio-luminescent element is a scintillation element.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the angle of polarization of a radio-luminescent element is determined by a polarizing element.

11 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the polarization sensitive sensor captures the at least one polarized signal using two sets of orthogonal polarization transmission axis.

12 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the degree of linear polarization and the angle of linear polarization of the at least one polarized signal are determined based on the following:

DoLP
=

I
pol

/

(

I
pol

+

I

rand
.
pol
.

)

AoLP
=
α

wherein:
DoLP refers to the degree of linear polarization;
AoLP is the angle of linear polarization;
I pol refers a polarized contribution of the signal;
I rand.pol. refers to a randomly polarized portion of the signal; and
α refers to a mean angle of polarization.

13 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the degree of linear polarization and the angle of linear polarization of the at least one polarized signal are determined using:

I
=

I
pol

⁢

cos
2

(

α
0

-
α

)

+

·

I

rand
.
pol
.

wherein:
I refers to the total signal acquired from one transmission axis;
I pol refers to the polarized portion of the signal;
I rand.pol refers to the randomly polarized portion of the signal;
α 0 refers to the transmission axis;
α □ refers to the angle of linear polarization;
(I pol )/(I pol +I rand.pol. ) refers to the degree of linear polarization.

14 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the degree of linear polarization and the angle of linear polarization of the at least one signal are determined using Stokes parameters such that:

S
→

=

(

S
0

S
1

S
2

S
3

)

=

(

I
0

+

I

9
⁢
0

Assignees

• Univ Laval

Inventors

• Cloutier Émily
• Beaulieu Luc
• Archambault Louis

Classifications

• G01T1/2907

  Angle determination; Directional detectors; Telescopes (prospecting by the use of nuclear radiation, e.g. of natural or induced radioactivity G01V5/00) · CPC title

• G01T1/22

  with Cerenkov detectors · CPC title

• G01T1/20

  with scintillation detectors · CPC title

• G01T1/10 Primary

  Luminescent dosimeters · CPC title