Testing efficiency transfer codes for equivalence

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 355-359

  Vidmar, T ^a   Celik N ^a,b   Cornejo Diaz N ^c   Dlabac, A ^d   Ewa, I O B ^e   Carrazana Gonzalez J A ^c   Hult, M ^a   Jovanovic S ^d   Lepy M C ^f   Mihaljevic N ^d   Sima, O ^g   Tzika, F ^h   Jurado Vargas, M ⁱ   Vasilopoulou, T ^h,j   Vidmar, G ^k  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Centro de Protección e Higiene de Las Radiacione   (Cuba)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTENEGRO   (Montenegro)

^e AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^f DIF   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^h INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^j NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^k UNIVERSITY REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

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Author keywords

Efficiency transfer method; Environmental radioactivity measurements; Gamma ray spectrometry; High purity germanium detectors; Intercomparison of different codes

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; HIGH PURITY GERMANIUM DETECTORS; INTERCOMPARISONS; TRANSFER METHOD;

DETECTORS; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; GAMMA RAYS; GERMANIUM; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVITY MEASUREMENT; SPECTROMETRY; STARS;

RADIOACTIVITY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; GEOMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 71949122327     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.10.012     Document Type: Article

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