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http://dx.doi.org/10.7742/jksr.2018.12.5.557

Coincidence Summing Corrections in HPGe Gamma Ray Spectrometry in Marinelli-beakers with Efficiency  

Jang, Eun-Sung (Department of Radiation Oncology Kosin University Gospel Hospital)
Lee, Hyo-Yeong (Department of Radiological Science, Dongeui University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology / v.12, no.5, 2018 , pp. 557-563 More about this Journal
Abstract
Coincidence summing correction effects are known to be greater as the efficiency of the detector increases and as the distance between the source and the detector increases. A point source($^{60}Co$) was used to vary the distance in the direction of the detector's center axis and in the radial direction to obtain the P/T ratio for Coincidence summing correction calibration. In this study, values for coincidence summing corrected calibration of the values in the central and radial directions were applied to the mixed volume source(450 ml CRM source) to compare the overall peak efficiency change according to P/T with Geant4. In addition, the efficiency obtained from the mapping method is applied to the seaweed, a marine sample, and the compatibility of the P/T ratio with the detector and sample very dose together. The efficiency corrected to 1,836 keV was applied to the energy zone affected by the efficiency of 500 keV and the relative error of the measured and corrected values was well matcched by the 3.2 % peak efficiency correction. As with 450 mL CRM source, the larger the volume, the lower the P/T ratio was by ${\pm}5%$. This is due to the increased scattering of gamma-rays emitted as the source becomes farther away from the detector, and this change in P/T has been confirmed to affect the Coincidence summing corrected peak efficiency.
Keywords
Geant4; HPGe; coincidence summing; efficiency;
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