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Validation and uncertainty quantification of detector response functions for a 1 ″× 2 ″NaI collimated detector intended for inverse radioisotope source mapping …

Nelson et al., 2017

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5862273100142667636
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Nelson N
Azmy Y
Gardner R
Mattingly J
Smith R
Worrall L
Dewji S
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

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Detector response functions (DRFs) are often used for inverse analysis. We compute the DRF of a sodium iodide (NaI) nuclear material holdup field detector using the code named g03 developed by the Center for Engineering Applications of Radioisotopes (CEAR) at NC …
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