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Shielded and unshielded geometries in the search for orphan sources.

Hjerpe, Thomas LU and Samuelsson, Christer LU (2006) In Applied Radiation and Isotopes 64(Dec 29). p.551-555
Abstract
A car-borne NaI(TI) spectrometric system was used together with a Cs-137 source to obtain realistic data in the search for unshielded and semi-shielded orphan sources. The potassium-stripped counts (PSC) method was used to estimate the influence by the shielding on the detection ability. A reduction of about 5% in the critical distance was obtained for the semi-shielded source. A curve fitting method was also developed and evaluated. Results from the curve fitting method showed inferior ability to find the source compared to the PSC method. However, it can be a useful complementary tool, for characterisation of the source shielding, and estimation of the distance from the road. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Applied Radiation and Isotopes
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Dec 29
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551 - 555
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10.1016/j.apradiso.2005.11.017
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  keywords     = {{radioactive source search; mobile gamma spectrometry; orphan sources}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{Dec 29}},
  pages        = {{551--555}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Applied Radiation and Isotopes}},
  title        = {{Shielded and unshielded geometries in the search for orphan sources.}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/2848264/625275.pdf}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.apradiso.2005.11.017}},
  volume       = {{64}},
  year         = {{2006}},
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