Calibration of cylindrical detectors using a simplified theoretical approach

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1057-1064

  Abbas, Mahmoud I ^a   Nafee, Sherif ^a   Selim, Younis S ^a  

^a Alexandria University Faculty Of Science   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Gamma spectroscopy; HPGe detector; NaI(Tl) detector; Photon path length

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA STRUCTURES; GAMMA RAYS; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

FULL-ENERGY PEAK; GAMMA SPECTROSCOPY; HPGE DETECTOR; NAI(TL) DETECTOR; PHOTON PATH LENGTH; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; STANDARDIZATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 33746352094     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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