A simple approach to determine the radioactivities of nuclides with 200-2000 keV γ ray(s) in the absence of efficiency calibration standard

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 533-537

  Feng, Xiao Gui ^a   He, Qian Ge ^a   Chen, Zhong Gong ^b   Han, Xue Mei ^b   Guo, Jian Feng ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA NATIONAL NUCLEAR CORPORATION   (China)

Author keywords

spectrometry; 4 liquid scintillation; 137Cs; 152Eu; Radioactivity determination

Indexed keywords

137CS; 152EU; COAXIAL HPGE DETECTORS; DETECTOR GEOMETRY; EFFICIENCY CALIBRATION; FIXED SOURCE; LIQUID SCINTILLATION; LOGARITHMIC COORDINATES; NEW APPROACHES; RAY RADIATION; RELATIVE STANDARD DEVIATIONS; SIMPLE APPROACH;

CALIBRATION; CESIUM; EUROPIUM; GAMMA RAYS; ISOTOPES; LIQUIDS; RADIATION; SCINTILLATION; SPECTROMETRY;

RADIOACTIVITY;

EID: 79955524203     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2011.02.014     Document Type: Article

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