Radioactive substance distribution map producing system and method of producing radioactive substance distribution map

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9990751-B2
Application number	US-201314763623-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 16, 2013
Priority date	Jan 28, 2013
Publication date	Jun 5, 2018
Grant date	Jun 5, 2018

Abstract

A radioactive substance distribution map producing system includes a radiation detector, a position measuring unit and a radioactive substance distribution map producing apparatus. The radiation detector is loaded on a moving vehicle and measures radiations from radioactive substances. The position measuring unit measures a position of the moving vehicle. The radioactive substance distribution map producing apparatus receives measurement data which contains a measurement result by the radiation detector and position data of the moving vehicle measured by the position measuring unit. The radioactive substance distribution map producing apparatus produces a distribution map of the radioactive substances by using the measurement data obtained at the plurality of positions while the moving vehicle moves.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A radioactive substance distribution map producing system comprising:
a radiation detector loaded on a moving vehicle to measure radiations from one or more radioactive substances as radiation sources to continue to generate radiation measurement data indicating incidence directions of the radiations for every timing while the moving vehicle is moving through a predetermined moving route;
a position detector disposed in the moving vehicle to continue to generate position data indicating a position of the moving vehicle for every timing while the moving vehicle is moving through the predetermined moving route;
an attitude detector disposed in the moving vehicle to continue to generate attitude data indicating an attitude of the radiation detector for every timing while the moving vehicle is moving through the predetermined moving route; and
a radioactive substance distribution map producing apparatus comprising a display device, a storage device storing a program, and a processing section executing the program to realize a radiation source position identifying section, a nuclide identifying section, and a distribution map generating section,
wherein the radiation source position identifying section generates radiation source position data for every timing from the radiation measurement data, the attitude data and the position data to accumulate the radiation source position data and the radiation measurement data,
wherein the nuclide identifying section generates radiation intensity data from the radiation measurement data to accumulate the radiation intensity data and the radiation source position data in the storage device, and generates nuclide data from the accumulated radiation intensity data and the accumulated radiation source position data, and
wherein the distribution map generating section produces a radioactive substance distribution map from the accumulated radiation source position data and the accumulated radiation intensity data to display the produced distribution map on the display device, and changes the produced distribution map to display a nuclide-identifiable radioactive substance distribution map on the display device.

2. The radioactive substance distribution map producing system according to claim 1 , wherein the radiation detector comprises a Compton camera.

3. The radioactive substance distribution map producing system according to claim 1 , wherein the radioactive substance distribution map producing apparatus displays the produced distribution map on the display device so as to superimpose a map and the produced distribution map.

4. The radioactive substance distribution map producing system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a visible light camera loaded on the moving vehicle,
wherein the radioactive substance distribution map producing apparatus receives a visible light image taken by the visible light camera, and displays the produced distribution map on the display device so as to superimpose the visible light image and the produced distribution map.

5. The radioactive substance distribution map producing system according to claim 1 , wherein the moving vehicle is an aircraft.

6. The radioactive substance distribution map producing system according to claim 1 , wherein the moving vehicle is an automobile.

7. A method of producing a radioactive substance distribution map, comprising:
measuring radiations from one or more radioactive substances as radiation sources by using a radiation detector loaded on a moving vehicle for every timing while the moving vehicle is moving through a predetermined moving route;
generating position data indicating a position of the moving vehicle for every timing while the moving vehicle is moving through the predetermined moving route;
generating attitude data indicating an attitude of the radiation detector for every timing while the moving vehicle is moving through the predetermined moving route;
generating direction data indicating directions of the radiation sources based on the measurement result by the radiation detector and the attitude data;
generating radiation source position data from the attitude data of the radiation detector, the position data of the moving vehicle, and the direction data of the radiation sources acquired at a plurality of timings while the moving vehicle is moving;
producing a distribution map of the radioactive substances from the radiation source position data;
generating radiation intensity data from the measurement result of the radiation detector to accumulate the radiation intensity data and the radiation source position data;
generating nuclide data from the accumulated radiation intensity data and the accumulated radiation source position data; and
changing the produced distribution map to display a nuclide-identifiable radioactive substance distribution map on a display device.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Komeda Munehiro
• Kuroda Yoshikatsu
• Arakawa Hiroshi
• GEMBA Kei
• Ikebuchi Hiroshi

Classifications

• G06T11/26

  Drawing of charts or graphs · CPC title

• Y02E30/30

  Nuclear fission reactors · CPC title

• G06T11/206

  Physics · mapped topic

• G01T7/00 Primary

  Details of radiation-measuring instruments · CPC title

• G01T1/167

  Measuring radioactive content of objects, e.g. contamination (whole body counters G01T1/163) · CPC title