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- Patent Title: True coincidence summing correction and total efficiency computation for radionuclide spectroscopy analysis
- Patent Title (中): 放射性核素光谱分析的真实符合求和校正和总效率计算
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Application No.: US12561949Application Date: 2009-09-17
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Publication No.: US08227761B2Publication Date: 2012-07-24
- Inventor: Hongguo Zhu , Ramkumar Venkataraman , Wilhelm Mueller , Joseph Lamontagne , Frazier Bronson
- Applicant: Hongguo Zhu , Ramkumar Venkataraman , Wilhelm Mueller , Joseph Lamontagne , Frazier Bronson
- Applicant Address: US CT Meriden
- Assignee: Canberra Industries, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Canberra Industries, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CT Meriden
- Agency: Carsten & Cahoon, LLP
- Agent David W. Carstens
- Main IPC: G01T1/172
- IPC: G01T1/172

Abstract:
A method, system, and software for calculating the true coincidence summing effects for radionuclide spectroscopy analysis. A set of equations which can be implemented with a stored computer program performs calculations to correct the spectroscopic analysis data for gamma-gamma coincidence events, gamma-X-ray coincidence events, as well as gamma-annihilation photon coincidence events. The net gamma-ray, KX-ray and annihilation photon summing-out probabilities for the analytic gamma-ray is the total summing-out probability from all gamma-ray summing-out chains subtracted by the total summing-out probability from all gamma-ray sub-cascade chains involving the analytic gamma-ray. A total efficiency calculation is performed to eliminate the need for using radioactive sources to create summing specific calibration measurements and for increased accuracy.
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