Application of a New in Situ Calibration Technique for Gamma Spectrometry and Comparison of in Situ and Laboratory Measurements

In situ gamma ray spectrometry was developed to quickly measure large areas of land following nuclear accidents. However, a proper calibration of detectors for in situ measurements is a long and complicated process. One tool designed to make this calibration quick is the InSiCal software. We compare...

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Autores principales: Rašeta, Davor, Petrinec, Branko, Babić, Dinko, Šoštarić, Marko
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8191430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33787184
http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aiht-2021-72-3468
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description In situ gamma ray spectrometry was developed to quickly measure large areas of land following nuclear accidents. However, a proper calibration of detectors for in situ measurements is a long and complicated process. One tool designed to make this calibration quick is the InSiCal software. We compared 5,000 s in situ measurements with two different HPGe detectors calibrated using the InSiCal software and laboratory measurements of samples collected at the same locations. Our findings suggest that in situ gamma spectrometry using InSiCal software can provide reasonably accurate data, but some improvements are needed.
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spelling pubmed-81914302021-06-17 Application of a New in Situ Calibration Technique for Gamma Spectrometry and Comparison of in Situ and Laboratory Measurements Rašeta, Davor Petrinec, Branko Babić, Dinko Šoštarić, Marko Arh Hig Rada Toksikol Original Article In situ gamma ray spectrometry was developed to quickly measure large areas of land following nuclear accidents. However, a proper calibration of detectors for in situ measurements is a long and complicated process. One tool designed to make this calibration quick is the InSiCal software. We compared 5,000 s in situ measurements with two different HPGe detectors calibrated using the InSiCal software and laboratory measurements of samples collected at the same locations. Our findings suggest that in situ gamma spectrometry using InSiCal software can provide reasonably accurate data, but some improvements are needed. Sciendo 2021-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8191430/ /pubmed/33787184 http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aiht-2021-72-3468 Text en © 2021 Davor Rašeta, Branko Petrinec, Dinko Babić, and Marko Šoštarić, published by Sciendo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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title_short Application of a New in Situ Calibration Technique for Gamma Spectrometry and Comparison of in Situ and Laboratory Measurements
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8191430/
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