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Calibration of cylindrical NaI(Tl) gamma-ray detector intended for truncated conical radioactive source

  • Badawi, Mohamed S. (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Beirut Arab University) ;
  • Thabet, Abouzeid A. (Department of Biomedical Equipment Technology, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences Technology, Pharos University in Alexandria)
  • Received : 2021.04.23
  • Accepted : 2021.10.12
  • Published : 2022.04.25
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Abstract

The computation of the solid angle and the detector efficiency is considering to be one of the most important factors during the measuring process for the radioactivity, especially the cylindrical γ-ray NaI(Tl) detectors nowadays have applications in several fields such as industry, hazardous for health, the gamma-ray radiation detectors grow to be the main essential instruments in radiation protection sector. In the present work, a generic numerical simulation method (NSM) for calculating the efficiency of the γ-ray spectrometry setup is established. The formulas are suitable for any type of source-to-detector shape and can be valuable to determine the full-energy peak and the total efficiencies and P/T ratio of cylindrical γ-ray NaI(Tl) detector setup concerning the truncated conical radioactive source. This methodology is based on estimate the path length of γ-ray radiation inside the detector active medium, inside the source itself, and the self-attenuation correction factors, which typically use to correct the sample attenuation of the original geometry source. The calculations can be completed in general by using extra reasonable and complicate analytical and numerical techniques than the standard models; especially the effective solid angle, and the detector efficiency have to be calculated in case of the truncated conical radioactive source studied condition. Moreover, the (NSM) can be used for the straight calculations of the γ-ray detector efficiency after the computation of improvement that need in the case of γ-γ coincidence summing (CS). The (NSM) confirmation of the development created by the efficiency transfer method has been achieved by comparing the results of the measuring truncated conical radioactive source with certified nuclide activities with the γ-ray NaI(Tl) detector, and a good agreement was obtained after corrections of (CS). The methodology can be unlimited to find the theoretical efficiencies and modifications equivalent to any geometry by essential sufficiently the physical selective considered situation.

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Acknowledgement

Dr. Mohamed. S. Badawi as one of the authors would like to show appreciation to the Radiation Physics Laboratory (RPL), Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, 21511 Alexandria, Egypt for letting him obtain the measurements by himself.

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