Analytical calculations of gamma scintillators efficiencies - II. Total efficiency for wide coaxial circular disk sources

Radiation Physics and Chemistry

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 15-19

  Selim, Younis S ^a   Abbas, Mahmoud I ^a  

^a Alexandria University Faculty Of Science   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOSPHORS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GAMMA SCINTILLATORS; SODIUM IODIDE;

SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

SODIUM IODIDE;

CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMMA SCINTIGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRODUCTIVITY; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIUS; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0034096580     PISSN: 0969806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-806X(99)00357-6     Document Type: Article

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