Efficient hardware architecture for embedded radionuclide identification

Radioactivity is the spontaneous emission of energy from unstable atoms. Radioactive sources have radionuclides. Radionuclide undergoes radioactive decay and emits gamma rays and subatomic particles, constituting the ionizing radiation. The gamma ray energy of a radionuclide is used to determine the identity of gamma emitters present in the source. This paper describes a hardware architecture to perform radionuclide identification. We also show a comparison between the performance of the proposed architecture and other solutions.