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An Analytical Method To Calculate Activity From Measurements Affected By Coincidence Summing, Anthony P. Popovich
An Analytical Method To Calculate Activity From Measurements Affected By Coincidence Summing, Anthony P. Popovich
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An analytical method is developed and applied to find the activities of two radioisotopes based on measurements influenced by true coincidence summing. The method incorporates the solid angle subtended by the detector, the macroscopic cross sections of the materials present, the absolute peak and total efficiencies of the detector, and the modes and probabilities of decay of the radioisotope. With this information, the method corrects for both summing-in and summing-out events. Summing events affect peak counts and cause the calculated activity to differ from the true activity. Thin disk sources of Mo-99 and Cs-136 on the face of a closed-end, …