Parameters affecting full energy peak efficiency determination during Monte Carlo simulation

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 68, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 1435-1437

  Karfopoulos, K L ^a   Anagnostakis, M J ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Detector efficiency; Gamma spectrometry; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

DETECTOR EFFICIENCY; FULL ENERGY PEAK; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; HPGE DETECTORS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PENELOPE; SIMULATION PARAMETERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; DETECTORS; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPTON EFFECT; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY RECOVERY; ENERGY TRANSFER; GAMMA RADIATION; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROCESS MODEL; RADIATION DETECTION; STANDARD; X RAY;

EID: 77952955018     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.11.020     Document Type: Article

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