Measurement of photon mass-energy absorption coefficients of paraffin wax and gypsum at 662 keV

Radiation Physics and Chemistry

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 757-764

  Shakhreet, Bassam Z ^a   Chong, C S ^a   Bandyopadhyay, T ^b   Bradley, D A ^c   Tajuddin, A A ^a   Shukri, A ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b VARIABLE ENERGY CYCLOTRON CENTRE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; GAMMA RAYS; PARAFFIN WAXES; RADIATION DETECTORS;

MASS-ENERGY ABSORPTION;

PHOTONS;

CALCIUM SULFATE; PARAFFIN;

ABSORPTIOMETRY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTON; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0242655046     PISSN: 0969806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-806X(03)00327-X     Document Type: Article

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