| Abstract from DBPedia | A scintillation counter is an instrument for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation by using the excitation effect of incident radiation on a scintillating material, and detecting the resultant light pulses. It consists of a scintillator which generates photons in response to incident radiation, a sensitive photodetector (usually a photomultiplier tube (PMT), a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera, or a photodiode), which converts the light to an electrical signal and electronics to process this signal. Scintillation counters are widely used in radiation protection, assay of radioactive materials and physics research because they can be made inexpensively yet with good quantum efficiency, and can measure both the intensity and the energy of incident radiation.シンチレーション検出器（シンチレーションけんしゅつき、英: scintillation detector）とは、シンチレータ（scintillator）を用いた放射線測定器を言う。 廉価で作ることができる割には計数効率が良いので、広く使用されている。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Scintillation_counter) |
