Influence of the background approximation methods on the analysis of γ-ray spectra

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 60, Issue 2-4, 2004, Pages 233-237

  Luca, Aurelian ^a   Morel, Jean ^b  

^a HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Background; Orthogonal polynomials; Step function; ray spectrometry

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ISOTOPES; POLYNOMIALS; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ACTIVITY DETERMINATION; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY;

GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS;

ARTICLE; COMPTON EFFECT; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; IONIZING RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BACKGROUND RADIATION; CALIBRATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOISOTOPES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA;

EID: 1342286989     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2003.11.023     Document Type: Article

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