阅读说明：本技术 一种基于温度变化的伽马谱仪数字化自动稳谱方法 (Gamma spectrometer digital automatic spectrum stabilizing method based on temperature change ) 是由 王海涛 杨林森 刘丹 王仁波 陈锐 刘琦 于 2021-01-14 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开一种基于温度变化的伽马谱仪数字化自动稳谱方法,其步骤如下：建立基于温度变化的伽马谱仪的谱漂和温度变化的曲线关系、在伽马谱仪的测量过程中,进行基于温度变化的数字化自动稳谱。本发明的优点在于：利用基于温度变化的伽马谱仪数字化自动稳谱方法,可实现无源稳谱、不用调节探测器工作高压和放大器增益,仅通过温度变化来修正脉冲幅度的方式实现数字化自动稳谱,特别适合于环境温度变化较大情况下的伽马能谱测量。(The invention discloses a gamma spectrometer digital automatic spectrum stabilizing method based on temperature change, which comprises the following steps: and establishing a curve relation between the spectrum drift of the gamma spectrometer based on the temperature change and the temperature change, and performing digital automatic spectrum stabilization based on the temperature change in the measurement process of the gamma spectrometer. The invention has the advantages that: the method for digitally and automatically stabilizing the spectrum of the gamma spectrometer based on the temperature change can realize passive spectrum stabilization, does not need to adjust the working high voltage of a detector and the gain of an amplifier, realizes the digital automatic spectrum stabilization only by correcting the pulse amplitude through the temperature change, and is particularly suitable for measuring the gamma energy spectrum under the condition of large environmental temperature change.)

1. A gamma spectrometer digital automatic spectrum stabilizing method based on temperature change comprises the following steps:

(1) establishing a curve relation between the spectrum drift and the temperature change of the gamma spectrometer based on the temperature change:

1) placing a digital gamma spectrometer in a thermostat, placing a radioactive standard source at the position of a detector of the digital gamma spectrometer, adjusting the temperature value of the thermostat according to a certain temperature interval within the allowable working temperature variation range of the gamma spectrometer, and measuring the energy spectrum curve of the standard source after the temperature of each point is stable to obtain the gamma energy spectrum curves at different temperatures;

2) searching one or more characteristic peak positions of the radioactive standard source in the energy spectrum curve at different temperatures, obtaining the gamma energy spectrum curve energy scale coefficient of each temperature point, and establishing a curve relation between the energy scale coefficient and the temperature change;

3) selecting a temperature point as a reference point or a characteristic peak channel address position as a reference point, correcting the gamma energy spectrum curve energy scale coefficient of each temperature point to obtain the curve relation between the energy scale coefficient correction quantity and the temperature change, and storing the curve data into a CPU of a digital gamma spectrometer;

(2) in the measurement process of a gamma spectrometer, carrying out digital automatic spectrum stabilization based on temperature change:

1) in a gamma spectrometer system, a high-speed digital processing chip (DSP) is used as a CPU to measure the temperature change of a gamma spectrometer detector, the high-precision fixed-point or floating-point operation capability of the DSP is utilized, the precise correction coefficient of each temperature point is calculated according to the relation curve of the energy scale coefficient correction quantity and the temperature change, and the precise correction coefficient is transmitted to a high-speed digital Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA);

2) in a gamma spectrometer system, full pulse sampling is directly carried out on signals output by a gamma ray detector through a high-speed FPGA and a high-speed analog-to-digital conversion chip (ADC), accurate correction of each pulse amplitude is realized in the FPGA through a relation curve of energy scale coefficient correction quantity changing along with temperature, and the pulse amplitudes corresponding to gamma rays with different energies are corrected to corresponding standard values;

3) in a gamma spectrometer system, the corrected pulse is generated into a gamma energy spectrum curve subjected to temperature spectrum stabilization through the FPGA, and the gamma energy spectrum curve is transmitted to the DSP so as to carry out spectral line display or spectral data communication.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of nuclear radiation detection, which can realize passive spectrum stabilization, does not need to adjust the working high voltage of a detector and the gain of an amplifier, realizes digital automatic spectrum stabilization only by correcting the pulse amplitude through temperature change, and is particularly suitable for gamma energy spectrum measurement under the condition of large environmental temperature change.

Background

Gamma spectrometry is widely used in the fields of medicine, biology, physics, chemistry, geology and the like as an important means for nuclear spectrometry. The gamma energy spectrum measuring system needs to convert gamma rays with different energies into electric pulse signals with different amplitudes, and at present, the most applied detectors of the gamma energy spectrum measuring instruments at home and abroad are scintillation crystals, such as NaI, BGO, LaBr3 and the like, and the gamma rays are firstly converted into the electric pulse signals and then are converted into the electric pulse signals through a photomultiplier tube and the like. However, the scintillation crystal detector and the photomultiplier are easily affected by temperature changes, temperature drift is generated, and the measurement accuracy is affected. In order to effectively solve the problem of spectrum stabilization and improve the measurement precision of the gamma energy spectrum, and simultaneously, in order to reduce the difficulty of subsequent spectrum decomposition processing, the gamma spectrometer needs to be stabilized, and the influence of temperature change on the measurement result of the gamma spectrometer is corrected.

The current commonly used spectrum stabilizing method mainly comprises a hardware spectrum stabilizing method and a software spectrum stabilizing method, wherein the principle of the hardware spectrum stabilizing method is to automatically adjust the gain of a system according to the spectrum drift degree so as to restore the shifted spectral line to a normal state. A hardware spectrum stabilizing method is realized by a high-voltage power supply with temperature compensation and a temperature tracking technology, for example, the working high voltage of a photomultiplier is adjusted by temperature variation, so that the system gain is changed, and spectral line drift caused by temperature rise is compensated. However, the detection efficiency of the gamma spectrometer is changed due to the change of the high working voltage of the photomultiplier, so that the hardware spectrum stabilization is realized by adjusting the gain of the amplifier at present, but the high-precision gain adjustment is difficult to realize by adopting the amplifier, and the precision of the energy spectrum measurement is further influenced.

The software spectrum stabilization is to find one or more characteristic peaks through software, and the characteristic peaks used for spectrum stabilization can be characteristic peaks of natural gamma rays (such as characteristic peaks generated by radioactive elements such as thorium, uranium, potassium and the like), characteristic peaks generated by a manually added spectrum stabilization source (such as an americium source, a cesium source, a cobalt source and the like), or characteristic peaks generated by an LED light source directly acting on a photomultiplier and the like. When the spectrometer works, the channel address of the characteristic peak after each measurement is detected in real time, software is used for automatically tracking the characteristic peak, whether the spectral line drifts or not is judged, then energy calibration is carried out on the spectrometer again, and the working high voltage of the photomultiplier or the gain of the amplifier can be adjusted according to the drift condition of the characteristic peak.

The method for realizing spectrum stabilization by using the natural gamma ray characteristic peak has the premise that the corresponding characteristic peak can be detected, and if the natural gamma ray is in a background environment with low radioactivity, automatic spectrum stabilization is difficult to realize.

The method that usually requires a manually added spectrum stabilization source to achieve spectrum stabilization is also called active spectrum stabilization, and is otherwise called passive spectrum stabilization.

The invention integrates the advantages of the method and provides a gamma spectrometer digital automatic spectrum stabilizing method based on temperature change, which is based on a digital gamma energy spectrum measuring system, directly carries out full-pulse sampling on signals output by a gamma ray detector through a high-speed digital field programmable gate array chip (FPGA) and a high-speed analog-to-digital conversion chip (ADC), measures the temperature change of a probe of the instrument through a high-speed digital processing chip (DSP), establishes the curve relation between characteristic peak spectrum drift and temperature change, calculates the accurate correction coefficient of each temperature point by utilizing the high-precision fixed-point or floating-point arithmetic capability of the DSP, realizes the accurate correction of each sampling pulse amplitude in the FPGA, and then generates a corrected gamma energy spectrum curve.

The method adopts passive spectrum stabilization (without active radioactive source), does not need to search the characteristic peak of the gamma energy spectrum in real time, does not need to adjust the working high voltage of a detector (without causing the change of the detection efficiency of a gamma spectrometer), does not need to adjust the gain of an amplifier, can directly realize the accurate correction of the pulse amplitude on the FPGA, and is particularly suitable for the gamma energy spectrum measurement under the condition of large environmental temperature change.

So far, no report about the digital automatic spectrum stabilization realized by a mode of correcting the pulse amplitude through temperature change is seen.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a gamma spectrometer digital automatic spectrum stabilizing method based on temperature change, which aims to improve the measurement and analysis precision of a gamma energy spectrum under the condition of large environmental temperature change.

The technical scheme of the invention is as follows: a gamma spectrometer digital automatic spectrum stabilizing method based on temperature change comprises the following steps:

(1) establishing a curve relation between the spectrum drift and the temperature change of the gamma spectrometer based on the temperature change:

1) placing a digital gamma spectrometer in a thermostat, placing a radioactive standard source at the position of a detector of the digital gamma spectrometer, adjusting the temperature value of the thermostat according to a certain temperature interval within the allowable working temperature variation range of the gamma spectrometer, and measuring the energy spectrum curve of the standard source after the temperature of each point is stable to obtain the gamma energy spectrum curves at different temperatures;

2) searching one or more characteristic peak positions of the radioactive standard source in the energy spectrum curve at different temperatures, obtaining the gamma energy spectrum curve energy scale coefficient of each temperature point, and establishing a curve relation between the energy scale coefficient and the temperature change;

3) selecting a temperature point as a reference point or a characteristic peak channel address position as a reference point, correcting the gamma energy spectrum curve energy scale coefficient of each temperature point to obtain the curve relation between the energy scale coefficient correction quantity and the temperature change, and storing the curve data into a CPU of a digital gamma spectrometer;

(2) in the measurement process of a gamma spectrometer, carrying out digital automatic spectrum stabilization based on temperature change:

1) in a gamma spectrometer system, a high-speed digital processing chip (DSP) is used as a CPU to measure the temperature change of a gamma spectrometer detector, the high-precision fixed-point or floating-point operation capability of the DSP is utilized, the precise correction coefficient of each temperature point is calculated according to the relation curve of the energy scale coefficient correction quantity and the temperature change, and the precise correction coefficient is transmitted to a high-speed digital Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA);

2) in a gamma spectrometer system, full pulse sampling is directly carried out on signals output by a gamma ray detector through a high-speed FPGA and a high-speed analog-to-digital conversion chip (ADC), accurate correction of each pulse amplitude is realized in the FPGA through a relation curve of energy scale coefficient correction quantity changing along with temperature, and the pulse amplitudes corresponding to gamma rays with different energies are corrected to corresponding standard values;

3) in a gamma spectrometer system, the corrected pulse is generated into a gamma energy spectrum curve subjected to temperature spectrum stabilization through the FPGA, and the gamma energy spectrum curve is transmitted to the DSP so as to carry out spectral line display or spectral data communication.

The invention has the advantages that: the method for digitally and automatically stabilizing the spectrum of the gamma spectrometer based on the temperature change can realize passive spectrum stabilization, does not need to adjust the working high voltage of a detector and the gain of an amplifier, realizes the digital automatic spectrum stabilization only by correcting the pulse amplitude through the temperature change, and is particularly suitable for measuring the gamma energy spectrum under the condition of large environmental temperature change.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a digital automatic determination method of a gamma spectrometer based on temperature variation according to embodiment 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of a digital gamma spectrometer based on temperature variation according to embodiment 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a graph showing the influence of temperature on spectrum drift before temperature spectrum stabilization of a digital gamma spectrometer based on temperature change according to embodiment 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a graph of the temperature-energy scale factor variation obtained by a digital gamma spectrometer based on temperature variation according to embodiment 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a graph showing the relationship between the temperature and energy calibration coefficient correction amount obtained by a digital gamma spectrometer based on temperature variation according to embodiment 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a graph showing the effect of temperature on spectrum drift of a temperature-dependent digital gamma spectrometer according to embodiment 1 of the present invention after performing temperature-stabilized spectrum correction.

Detailed Description

The invention is described in more detail below with reference to the figures and the detailed description.

The basic idea of the invention is based on a digital gamma energy spectrum measuring system, full pulse sampling is directly carried out on signals output by a gamma ray detector through a high-speed digital processing chip (such as FPGA) and a high-speed ADC, a curve relation between spectrum drift and temperature change of the gamma ray detector is established, accurate correction of the amplitude of each sampling pulse is realized in the FPGA by calculating a correction coefficient of each temperature point, and a corrected gamma energy spectrum curve is regenerated.

The invention relates to a gamma spectrometer digital automatic spectrum stabilizing method based on temperature change, which comprises the following steps:

(1) according to the basic idea shown in fig. 1 and the functional block diagram shown in fig. 2, a set of temperature change-based digital gamma spectrometer is designed, and a curve relation between a spectrum drift and a temperature change of the temperature change-based gamma spectrometer is established:

1) placing a digital gamma spectrometer in a thermostat, placing a radioactive standard source at the position of a detector of the digital gamma spectrometer, adjusting the temperature value of the thermostat according to a certain temperature interval within the allowable working temperature variation range of the gamma spectrometer, and measuring the energy spectrum curve of the standard source after the temperature of each point is stable to obtain gamma energy spectrum curves at different temperatures, wherein the gamma energy spectrum curves are shown in figure 3;

2) searching one or more characteristic peak positions of the radioactive standard source in the energy spectrum curve at different temperatures, obtaining the gamma energy spectrum curve energy scale coefficient of each temperature point, and establishing a curve relation between the energy scale coefficient and the temperature change, as shown in fig. 4;

3) selecting a temperature point as a reference point or a characteristic peak channel address position as a reference point, correcting the gamma energy spectrum curve energy scale coefficient of each temperature point to obtain the curve relation between the energy scale coefficient correction quantity and the temperature change, as shown in fig. 5, and storing the curve data into a CPU of a digital gamma spectrometer;

(2) in the measurement process of a gamma spectrometer, carrying out digital automatic spectrum stabilization based on temperature change:

1) in a gamma spectrometer system, a high-speed digital processing chip (DSP) is used as a CPU to measure the temperature change of a gamma spectrometer detector, the high-precision fixed-point or floating-point operation capability of the DSP is utilized, the precise correction coefficient of each temperature point is calculated according to the relation curve of the energy scale coefficient correction quantity and the temperature change, and the precise correction coefficient is transmitted to a high-speed digital Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA);

2) in a gamma spectrometer system, full pulse sampling is directly carried out on signals output by a gamma ray detector through a high-speed FPGA and a high-speed analog-to-digital conversion chip (ADC), accurate correction of each pulse amplitude is realized in the FPGA through a relation curve of energy scale coefficient correction quantity changing along with temperature, and the pulse amplitudes corresponding to gamma rays with different energies are corrected to corresponding standard values;

3) in the gamma spectrometer system, the corrected pulse is generated into a gamma energy spectrum curve subjected to temperature spectrum stabilization through the FPGA, and the gamma energy spectrum curve is transmitted to the DSP so as to be convenient for spectral line display or spectral data communication, and the energy spectrum curve subjected to temperature correction is shown in FIG. 6.

It can be seen from the comparison effect of fig. 3 and fig. 6 that the gamma spectrometer digitalized automatic spectrum stabilization method based on the temperature change can realize digitalized automatic passive spectrum stabilization in a mode of correcting the pulse amplitude only through the temperature change without adjusting the working high voltage of the detector and the gain of the amplifier, and the gamma spectrometer developed by the method is particularly suitable for the gamma energy spectrum measurement under the condition of large environmental temperature change.