Smart phone used as rad detector with dongle

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Smart phone used as rad detector with dongle

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Here's an interesting, but limited detector ... http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/07/29/ ... artphones/
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Nothing is said about the sensor that detects the radiation.......... Ultra-tiny Ion chamber, maybe????
As a member of the American Nuclear Society Chapter in Virginia, I have a friend in the group who found an app for his smart phone that uses the phone's CMOS camera chip to detect Gamma. Seems to work OK. I have seen that work and no attachment is needed. You have to have a potent source, though. We used a 10uCi Cs137 source to get it going sitting on the phone's camera lens port.

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