Effect of collimator size and absorber thickness on gamma ray attenuation measurements

Radiation Physics and Chemistry

Volumn 56, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 535-537

  Sidhu, Gurdeep S ^a   Singh, Karamjit ^a   Singh, Parjit S ^a   Mudahar, Gurmel S ^a  

^a PUNJABI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Attenuation coefficient; Collimator size; Correlation effect; Multiple scattering

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; SCATTERING; SOILS; WATER;

ABSORBER THICKNESS; COLLIMATOR SIZE; CORRELATION EFFECT; GAMMA RAY ATTENUATION; MASS ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS;

GAMMA RAYS;

WATER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; GAMMA IRRADIATION; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SAMPLE; SOIL; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0033230268     PISSN: 0969806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-806X(99)00341-2     Document Type: Article

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