UMB Initial Radiation Safety Training (RST)
55: Example of Compton Scattering
56: Photon Interactions Pair Production
57: Example of Pair Production
58: Photon Interactions
59: Part II -- Instrumentation
60: Detection Modes
61: Detector Types
62: Gas Filled Detectors
63: Pulses Produced & The Information They C
64: Ion Chambers
65: G-M Detectors
66: G-M Detectors
67: Scintillation Detectors
68: Scintillation Detector
69: Scintillation Detector Operation
70: Scintillation Detectors
71: Detector Response
72: Selecting The Right Detector
73: Using Hand-Held Survey Instruments
74: Liquid Scintillation Counting


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G-M Detectors

     - Operate in pulse mode
–Counts individual events
     - Cannot distinguish between radiation types or energies
     - Cannot report dose rate (mR/hr)
–Except for the type and energy of radiation used in calibration