Calculation of coincidence summing corrections for X-ray peaks and for sum peaks with X-ray contributions

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 64, Issue 10-11, 2006, Pages 1297-1302

  Arnold, Dirk ^a   Sima, Octavian ^b  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Coincidence summing; Gamma ray spectrometry; X rays

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERROR CORRECTION; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

COINCIDENCE SUMMING; GAMMA-RAY SPECTROMETRY; GESPECOR SOFTWARE; SUM PEAKS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

BARIUM; BARIUM 133; GERMANIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COINCIDENCE SUMMING CORRECTION FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; GAMMA RADIATION; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; SPECTROMETRY; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; GAMMA RAYS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA; X-RAYS;

EID: 33751078558     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2006.02.051     Document Type: Article

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