Reconfigurable hardware to radionuclide identification using subtractive clustering

  • Authors:
  • Marcos Santana Farias;Nadia Nedjah;Luiza de Macedo Mourelle

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Instrumentation, Nuclear Engineering Institute, Brazil;Department of Electronics Engineering and Telecommunications, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;Department of Systems Engineering and Computation, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • ICA3PP'11 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Algorithms and architectures for parallel processing - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Radioactivity is the spontaneous emission of energy from unstable atoms. Radioactive sources have radionuclides. Radionuclide undergoes radioactive decay and emits gamma rays and subatomic particles, constituting the ionizing radiation. The gamma ray energy of a radionuclide is used to determine the identity of gamma emitters present in the source. This paper describes the hardware implementation of subtractive clustering algorithm to perform radionuclide identification.