Cascade summing effects in close geometry gamma-ray spectrometry

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 64, Issue 10-11, 2006, Pages 1323-1328

  Johnston, Peter N ^a   Hult, Mikael ^b   Gasparro, Joël ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

106Ru; 26Al; Cascade summing; EGS4; Gamma ray spectrometry; Low level; Monte Carlo simulations; True summing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRONS; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES;

106/RU; 26AL; CASCADE SUMMING; EGS4; GAMMA-RAY SPECTROMETRY; LOW-LEVEL; TRUE SUMMING;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

ALUMINUM 26; GERMANIUM; RADIOISOTOPE; RUTHENIUM 106;

ARTICLE; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; GEOMETRY; HIGH PURITY GERMANIUM DETECTOR; LOW LEVEL GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOGRAPHY;

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; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA;

EID: 33751088015     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2006.02.038     Document Type: Article

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