Effect of detector collimator and sample thickness on 0.662 MeV multiply Compton-scattered gamma rays

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 373-378

  Singh, Manpreet ^a   Singh, Gurvinderjit ^a   Sandhu, B S ^a   Singh, Bhajan ^a  

^a PUNJABI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Multiply scatter fraction (MSF); Saturation thickness; Signal to noise ratio; Singly and multiply Compton scattered events

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; SCATTERING; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MULTIPLY SCATTER FUNCTION (MSF); SATURATION THICKNESS; SCATTERED PHOTONS;

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPTON EFFECT; GAMMA RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTISCANNING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THICKNESS;

ARTIFACTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAMMA RAYS; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 29144479251     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2005.08.015     Document Type: Article

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