X-Nico

6 unusual facts about Geiger counter


Charles Steen

Steen could not afford the standard radiation-detecting equipment used by uranium prospectors - the Geiger counter.

Geiger counter

Modern versions of the Geiger counter use the halogen tube invented in 1947 by Sidney H. Liebson.

New Jersey Transit Police Department

New Jersey Transit purchased belt clip-on radiation detectors as well as other explosive and radiological material detecting equipment to ensure that all of its regional police commands and officers throughout the state are equipped to detect explosives and radiological matter.

Rectilinear scanner

Before the invention of the rectilinear scanner in 1950 by Benedict Cassen, nuclear medicine pioneers used to move their insensitive Geiger Counters over different parts of the body, which resulted in a fairly crude determination of the distribution of radioactivity.

Sentinel lymph node

Then, during the biopsy, the physician visually inspects the lymph nodes for staining and uses a gamma probe or a Geiger counter to assess which lymph nodes have taken up the radionuclide.

The Mountain of the Cannibal God

There they find the primitives worshipping the remains of Susan's husband as they can hear his Geiger counter ticking, and believe it to be his heart still working.



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