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Radiation Detection Reports
Markets for Radiation Detection Equipment

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Radiation Detector Markets
The radiation detector market is large, diverse and global. It stands at about $25
billion (USD) in 2013 and projected to grow at 4% annually over the next 8 years to
about $33 billion.
The market is divided into medical radiation detectors (66% market share), safety &
monitoring (14%) detectors and specialty & custom detectors (20%)
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Total Radiation Detector Market
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Radiation Detector Markets
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Total Global Market for Radiation Detectors 2013-2018
Process Monitors
Area Monitors
Backpack
Dosimeters
PRD/SPRDs
Oil & Resource Logging
Vehicle Mounted
Survey Meters
RIIDs
Portal Monitors
Nuclear SPECT
Custom Big Physics
Industrial Radiography
Radiography
Computed Tomography
Nuclear PET

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Medical Detection Market Segments
Exhibit E-1: Potential Example Segmentations of the Radiation Detector Market
Market Segments Product Types Applications Detector Types
Medical Dosimeters Dirty Bomb Detection Geiger Counters
Homeland
Security/Defense
Radioisotope Identification
Device
Cardio Stress Testing Ionization Chambers
Nuclear Energy Personal Radiation Device Dark Matter Detection Scintillation Counters
Occupational Safety Portal Monitors Effluent Waste Monitors
Semiconductor
Detectors
Industrial Component
Inspection
Oil Logging Meters
Whole Body Contamination
Scanners
Cryogenic Detectors
Oil and Resource
Exploration
PET Devices
Oncology Treatment
Monitoring

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Medical Detection Markets
Medical detectors include radiography and CT X-ray detectors, and PET and SPECT detectors.
This market will grow by 4% annually, driven by continued global demand for healthcare.
The drivers are an aging population in mature economies and economic empowerment in
emerging economies
Digital Radiography (DR) has become the dominant detector in most radiography
applications displacing its competition. Demand for computed radiography (CR), a
transitional technology will flat-line or decline and analog film will continue a steep decline
in market share.
CT is increasing its utility as a go-to diagnostic tool as radiation dosages decline with higher
slice devices. Ultra high slice devices employ DR detectors, expanding the utility of flat
panel CsI thin films.
SPECT techniques are successfully coupling with CT, but challenges remain to make
SPECT/MRI a clinical modality. SPECT will continue its dominance in cardiology, unless
improvements to the Anger camera detector can allow substitution for PET in oncology.
PET will be part of multimodalities moving forward (PET/CT, PET/MRI etc). But will be
available at larger institutions that can base the upfront costs. PET will only dominate
SPECT of the costs can dramatically decrease.

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Safety and Monitoring Detector Markets
The safety and monitoring market includes homeland security, military, nuclear energy, and
industrial and occupational sub-segments.
This market will grow at 5% annually driven by activities in global nuclear threat security
and by the continued employment of nuclear power by most nations, especially China
The 2011 Fukushima accident has not greatly affected the move toward nuclear, except in
a few nations, and even Japan is rethinking its moratorium.
Although not nuclear terrorism, severe terrorist events, especially the Boston Marathon
bombings; keep the threat of nuclear terrorism on the public conscious. Growth in the
market will come from the continued deployment of radiation portals and individual
detectors to emergency response personnel
The security and military markets are by far the most innovative sectors and new
scintillation detectors may be on the market soon that challenge NaI and LaBr3
The need for personal radiation protection may see growth driven by the acceptance of
food irradiation and the subsequent opening of new facilities.

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Custom and Specialty Detector Markets
The custom and specialty detector market includes specialty oil well logging and safety devices,
industrial radiography, detectors for Cosmology and High-Energy Physics, custom process
monitors and vehicular mounted sized detectors.
This market is approximately growing at approximately 5% annually, and is characterized
by unique applications of radiation detection or a reliance on custom built devices.
Industrial Radiography represents the largest segment of this market and is dominated by
X-ray based inspections. This will be the last hold out for film radiography as many major
manufacturers have not transitioned specs to digital. Also firms may by-pass 2D DR
inspections in favor of 3D CT. We suspect that gamma based inspections will be pushed
out by X-ray or alternate non-destructive tests like ultrasound.
Oil well logging devices will continue to be in demand as more and more hydrocarbons are
taken from US “fracked” sources. Radiation detectors are needed to determine the size and
shape of resource wells, and the materials that surround them.
Big Physics at CERN may have discovered an elusive particle, and Cosmologists
everywhere are seeking to understand dark matter. Despite tepid support from the US,
globally Big Physics is enjoying a renaissance. China and Russia may well support similar
projects in the future. These activities require custom and complex radiation detectors.

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Radiation Detection Materials
“Radiation Detection Materials Markets 2013” predicts that scintillation
(crystalline and thin-film), semiconductor, and non-3He neutron detector
materials revenues will grow from $2.3 billion (USD) this year to $3.7 billion
in 2020.
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Total Worldwide Radiation Detection Material
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Worldwide Radiation Detector Materials Revenue by Application
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Total Geophysical
Total Nuclear Power
Total Medical Imaging
Total Military
Total Domestic Security

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Worldwide Radiation Detection Material Revenue
Non-3He Neutron Detection Materials
(10Boron and 6Li-Based)
Semiconductor Detector Revenues
Scintillation Detector Revenues

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Current and Future Factors Shaping the Radiation
Detection Materials Market
In the medical field, an aging population in North America, Europe, and Japan has created one source of increased
demand for radiological imaging equipment, and thus demand for scintillating radiation detection crystals.
Economically emerging nations (BRIC nations and other similar economies) are creating demand for radiological
imaging equipment in markets where there was previously little or no penetration of these advanced imaging
techniques.
Scintillation materials for medical imaging will slowly transition away from some of the oxides, such as BGO, to some of
the silicates and LaBr3 if crystal growth techniques can help bring prices down to justify materials changes for improved
performance.
Thin-film scintillation materials for digital x-ray imaging represent a major area of growth over the next eight years. The
transition from traditional film and phosphor plates is happening currently, and will accelerate as the cost of digital x-ray
panel detectors based on CsI become the norm in the medical field.
There is no “Moore’s law” for radiation detection materials. The physics of each material dictates the amount
necessary for specific sensitivity to radiation. Likewise, resolution and light yield are intrinsic to the material. Cost
reduction in radiation detection materials will come through economies of scale as larger improved factories come
online, and performance will be improved through introduction of new materials with improved fundamental attributes.

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Domestic security applications represent a steady growth sector for the foreseeable future. Protection against
radiological threats has been defined as a fundamental function of the domestic security apparatus in the U.S. and
most other nations that could be a target of radiological terrorism. Once such funding becomes ingrained in the
bureaucracy of state spending, while events like the current U.S. sequester may temporarily threaten such spending,
ultimately the threats are empty and the funding grows steadily.
Domestic security demand for improved resolution detection materials for portals is still a priority. Replacement of
PVT-based detection materials with NaI in many cases is ongoing, but radiation detection materials for primary
screening with improved isotope identification capability are needed. CLYC has just been introduced, but could be a
candidate. CZT has the resolution necessary, but currently the cost is too high.
3He gas is currently the detection material of choice for slow neutron detection of nuclear materials. The demand for
3He is, however, three times current production. 3He currently is harvested from the decay of tritium in nuclear
weapons and is nonrenewable, with the available weapons material declining due to disarmament requirements. As
a result, the current crisis will only intensify.
3He is therefore no longer approved for portal use, and the industry has transitioned to 10B-lined tubes. 6Li has not
been adopted significantly for portals due to its poor sensitivity in the presence of significant gamma radiation, but
work continues to improve 6Li for such applications.
Markets for nuclear power will likely experience slow growth, but may begin to rebound even in Japan as the cost of
non-nuclear alternatives is felt. One opportunity for radiation detection near nuclear plants will be in the consumer
market for dosimeters. It won’t be a mass market, but with new low-priced dosimeters available, there will be some
demand.

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Military markets will have significant demand for new small electronic dosimeters that can be wirelessly linked to
provide real-time information to commanders. The ability to more clearly understand the exposure of troops will
provide better information to the command regarding the operational readiness of forces.
Room temperature isotope detection equipment based on CZT will also likely see a significant uptick in demand in
military applications. Eliminating the cooling requirement needed with current HPGe-based detectors for field
operations will be a welcome improvement for military mobile isotope detection equipment. Finally, there will be
steady demand for more radiation detection monitoring near bases worldwide.
CZT represents a significant possibility for wide adoption in the isotope detection role, because it does not require
cooling like HPGe. However, many years of work have gone into the crystal growth engineering of CZT, and while
much improved, large single crystals like those grown in the semiconductor industry for silicon remain elusive. If
costs can be brought down, the future is bright; if not, CZT may be limited to applications where its high cost can be
absorbed.
For materials suppliers, providing precursors for multiple paths of research at both lower purity and ultra-high purity
will provide customers with the needed materials to quickly conduct research into new materials. In addition,
subcontracting to key suppliers of more exotic materials will be helpful. Finally, offering equipment to facilitate
automation of materials discovery could be a differentiating factor between suppliers.

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principal analyst at
NanoMarkets and one of its two
co-founders. Mr. Gasman has
more than 30 years' experience
of analyzing the
commercialization potential of
complex technologies and
currently manages all of
NanoMarkets' industry research.
Lawrence Gasman
Principal Analyst
Jeff DeBord is a Senior
Associate Analyst for
NanoMarkets working in the
areas of advanced
materials. He is the author of
the NanoMarkets report,
“Radiation Detection Materials
Markets.” His educational
background includes a Ph.D. in
inorganic chemistry from the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
and postdoctoral work at the
NEC Research Institute in
Princeton, New Jersey.
Jeff Debord
Senior Associate
Analyst
Sean Dingman is a Senior
Associate Analyst for
NanoMarkets and the author of
the report, “Markets for Radiation
Detection Equipment.” Most
recently he was a New Business
Development Manager at Sigma-
Aldrich’s SAFC Hitech business
unit where he drove the
expansion of their product lines
and technologies for radiation
detection materials. Mr.
Dingman’s holds a Ph.D. in
Inorganic Materials Chemistry
from Washington University in
St. Louis, MO
Sean Dingman
Senior Associate
Analyst
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