Evaluation of Monte Carlo simulation of photon counting efficiency for germanium detectors

Health Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 512-519

  Kamboj, Sunita ^a,b   Kahn, Bernd ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

counting efficiency; detector, germanium; Monte Carlo; photons

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DETECTION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029872624     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199604000-00008     Document Type: Article

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