A comparison between gross and net count methods when searching for orphan radioactive sources

Health Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 203-211

  Hjerpe, Thomas ^a   Samuelsson, Christer ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Contamination, environmental; Emergency planning; Radiation protection; Spectrometry, gamma

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; POTASSIUM 40; RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL; RADIOISOTOPE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; GAMMA RADIATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SPECTROMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; GAMMA RAYS; RADIOISOTOPES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SODIUM IODIDE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037302422     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200302000-00008     Document Type: Article

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