Radiation detector

Claim 1

A RADIATION DETECTING DEVICE COMPRISING A WIRE ELECTRODE, A PLURALITY OF UNDULATED RIBBONS, CONNECTED ELECTRICALLY ONE TO ANOTHER TO FORM THE OTHER ELECTRODE, EACH OF SAID RIBBONS HAVING ITS UNDULATIONS IN THE DIRECTION PARALLEL TO THE AXIS OF SAID WIRE ELECTRODE AND ARRANGED IN SEPARATE RELATION SYMMETRICALLY WITH RESPECT TO SAID WIRE ELECTRODE, SAID RIBBONS BEING EXPOSED TO IMPINGING RADIATION AND EMITTING ELECTRONS AS A RESULT OF THE INTERACTION WITH SAID RADIATION, AN IONIZABLE MEDIUM COMPRISING SAID WIRE ELECTRODE AND SAID RIBBONS, MEANS FOR APPLYING DIFFERENCE OF POTENTIAL OF DETERMINED MAGNITUDE BETWEEN SAID WIRE ELECTRODE AND SAID RIBBONS, THEREBY PRODUCING AN ELECTRIC FIELD IN SAID MEDIUM FOR COLLECTING THE PRODUCTS OF IONIZATIN CAUSED BY SAID ELECTRONS WHEN TRAVERSING SAID MEDIUM, THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE INTENSITY OF SAID FIELD BEING DEPENDENT UPON THE EXTENT OF SAID UNDULATIONS AND SUCH THAT AT SOME PORTIONS OF SAID MEDIUM WITHIN SAID UNDULATIONS, THE FIELD BECOMES TOO WEAK TO BE EFFECTIVE IN COLLECTING SAID IONIZATIN PRODUCTS IN SAID PORTIONS, A PLURALITY OF AUXILIARY WIRE ELECTRODES COMPRISED IN SAID MEDIUM AND TRAVERSING SAID PORTIONS, AND A SECOND MEANS FOR APPLYING ANOTHER DIFFERENCE OF POTENTIAL OF A DIFFERENT MAGNITUDE BETWEEN SAID AUXILIARY WIRE ELECTRODE AND SAID UNDULATED RIBBONS, THEREBY PRODUCING AN AUXILIARY ELECTRIC FIELD IN SAID PORTIONS, SAID AUXILIARY FIELD BEING EFFECTIVE IN COLLECTING SAID IONIZATION PRODUCTS IN SAID PORTIONS.