Sentences with phrase «with radiation detectors»

There will be bomb sniffing dogs, officers with radiation detectors, and expect to see the NYPD's counterterrorism task force on guard.

John Raymond was about to sell his home in Lewiston until Environmental Protection Agency officials showed up last spring armed with radiation detectors.

For example, an aerial robot equipped with a radiation detector, 3D camera system, and temperature and humidity sensors could inspect something like the Fukushima nuclear reactors, where the radiation level is too high for humans, or fly into tight crawlspaces such as mines or collapsed buildings.

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Members of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee were surprised to learn that Marine Patrol, working with the East End Marine Task Force on Long Island Sound, has been carrying radiation detectors.

«The high - intensity X-ray beamlines at the ESRF, equipped with state - of - the - art Dectris detectors, were crucial for getting high quality crystallographic data from the weakly diffracting and radiation sensitive crystals of the large polymerase complex,» says Cusack.

The detector is more than a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, where it is shielded from cosmic rays and radiation that might interfere with a potential dark matter signal.

Researchers in the field say future versions of this system could take clear x-ray photographs with cheap cameras — no need for lenses and multipixel detectors — and less cancer - causing radiation than conventional techniques.

The detector's location at Sanford Lab beneath a mile of rock helps to shield it from cosmic rays and other radiation that would interfere with a dark matter signal.

There are contributions from interstellar matter, from the three - degree - Kelvin background radiation left over from the early history of the universe, from noise that is fundamentally associated with the operation of any detector and from the absorption of radiation by the earth's atmosphere.

For example, larger detectors can image women with very large breasts with fewer views and less radiation.

The camera head includes a 58 degree FOV lens, a CCD detector with integral filter, and approximately 2 kilograms of radiation shielding.

With its three cameras, four spectrometers, two radiation detectors, and weather monitoring station, MSL's primary goal is to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support microbial life.

These encounters cause high background radiation, which interferes with the instruments» detectors.

Detectors measure the attenuation of the energy through the cell with the experimental compound as a function of the wavelength of the radiation.

The problems being addressed with this tuning probably involve the high variability and changes of the angular distribution functions for outgoing radiation and the very limited sampling of the radiation field that is possible from an orbiting satellite, as well as, perhaps, detector calibration.