Consistency test of coincidence-summing calculation methods for extended sources

Octavian Sima, Anne de Vismes Ott, M.S. Dias, Pavel Dryak, Laurent Ferreux, Daniela Gurau, Santiago Hurtado, Pawel Jodlowski, Konstantinos Karfopoulos, Marina Fallone Koskinas, Matthias Laubenstein, Y.K. Lee, Marie-Christine Lépy, Aurelian Luca, Mario Olimpio Menezes, Denise Moreira, Jelena Krneta Nikolic, Virginia Peyres, Pawel Saganowski, Mailia I. SavvaRenato Semmler, Jaroslav Solc, Tran Thien Thanh, Katarzyna Tymińska, Tim Vidmar, Ivana S. Vukanac, Haluk Yucel

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Abstract

An internal consistency test of the calculation of coincidence-summing correction factors FC for volume sources is presented. The test is based on exact equations relating the values of FC calculated for three ideal measurement configurations. The test is applied to a number of 33 sets of FC values sent by 21 teams. Most sets passed the test, but not the results obtained using the quasi-point source approximation; in the latter case the test qualitatively indicated the magnitude of the bias of FC.
Original languageEnglish
Article number108921
Number of pages11
JournalApplied Radiation and Isotopes
Volume155
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2020

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