Experimental validation of coincidence summing corrections computed by the ETNA software

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 64, Issue 10-11, 2006, Pages 1340-1345

  Lépy, Marie Christine ^a   Brun, Philippe ^a   Collin, Claude ^a   Plagnard, Johann ^a  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Calibration; Coincidence summing; Efficiency; Gamma ray spectrometry

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; SPECTROMETRY;

COINCIDENCE SUMMING; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; MULTI GAMMA EMITTERS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA;

EID: 33751083839     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2006.02.042     Document Type: Article

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