title: Use of a solar panel as a directionally sensitive large-area radiation monitor for direct and scattered x-rays and gamma-rays.
abstract: The characteristics of a 25.4 X 91 cm solar cell panel used as an x-ray and gamma-ray radiation monitor are presented. Applications for monitoring the primary x-ray beam are described at different values of operating currents and voltages as well as for directional dependence of scattered radiation. Other applications in gamma-ray radiography are also given. The detector showed linear response to both x-ray and gamma-ray exposures. The equipment is rigid, easy to use, relatively inexpensive and requires no power supply or any complex electronic equipment.
authors.affiliation: College of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Abdul-Majid
mesh_terms: D005720:Gamma Rays; D006801:Humans; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D011859:Radiography; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D014965:X-Rays