<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Radioactive sealed sources and radiotracer techniques are used to diagnose industrial process units. This work introduces a workspace to simulate four sealed sources and radiotracer applications, namely, gamma scanning of distillation columns, gamma scanning of pipes, gamma transmission tomography, and radiotracer flow rate measurements. The workspace was created in Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission (GATE) simulation toolkit and was called Industrial Radioisotope Applications Virtual Laboratory. The flexibility of GATE and the fact that it is an open-source software render it advantageous to radioisotope technology practitioners, educators, and students. The comparison of the simulation results with experimental results that are available in the literature showed the effectiveness of the virtual laboratory.</p></abstract>

Radioactive sealed sources and radiotracer techniques are used to diagnose industrial process units. This work introduces a workspace to simulate four sealed sources and radiotracer applications, namely, gamma scanning of distillation columns, gamma scanning of pipes, gamma transmission tomography, and radiotracer flow rate measurements. The workspace was created in Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission (GATE) simulation toolkit and was called Industrial Radioisotope Applications Virtual Laboratory. The flexibility of GATE and the fact that it is an open-source software render it advantageous to radioisotope technology practitioners, educators, and students. The comparison of the simulation results with experimental results that are available in the literature showed the effectiveness of the virtual laboratory.

A virtual laboratory for radiotracer and sealed-source applications in industry

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Radioactive sealed sources and radiotracer techniques are used to diagnose industrial process units. This work introduces a workspace to simulate four sealed...

A virtual laboratory for radiotracer and sealed-source applications in industry

Article Category: Original Paper

Published Online: Mar 06, 2021

Page range: 21 - 27

Received: May 11, 2020

Accepted: Jun 03, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nuka-2021-0003

Keywords
Sealed sources, Radiotracers, Industrial gamma tomography, Simulation, GATE

© 2021 Mohammed Siddig H. Mohammed et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

A virtual laboratory for radiotracer and sealed-source applications in industry

Article Category: Original Paper

Published Online: Mar 06, 2021

Page range: 21 - 27

Received: May 11, 2020

Accepted: Jun 03, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nuka-2021-0003

KeywordsSealed sources, Radiotracers, Industrial gamma tomography, Simulation, GATE

© 2021 Mohammed Siddig H. Mohammed et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Sealed sources, Radiotracers, Industrial gamma tomography, Simulation, GATE