Developing 152Eu into a standard for detector efficiency calibration

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 60, Issue 2-4, 2004, Pages 283-287

  Castro, Ruy M ^a,b,c   Vanin, Vito R ^a   Pascholati, Paulo R ^a   Maidana, Nora L ^a   Dias, Mauro S ^d   Koskinas, Marina F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAUBATÉ   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO DE ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

Author keywords

152Eu 13 year decay; Gamma transitions; Level scheme

Indexed keywords

EUROPIUM; GAMMA RAYS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIOACTIVITY; STANDARDS;

MULTI-DETECTOR ARRAYS;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EUROPIUM; EUROPIUM 152; EUROPIUM 154; GADOLINIUM; PROMETHIUM; PROMETHIUM 152; RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL; SAMARIUM; SAMARIUM 152; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RADIOISOTOPE;

ACCURACY; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; GAMMA RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; HALF LIFE TIME; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION STUDY;

CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EUROPIUM; HALF-LIFE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 1342286990     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2003.11.029     Document Type: Article

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