Standardization of Sn-113

Miguel Roteta; Virginia Peyres; Eduardo García-Toraño

doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2013.11.131

Standardization of Sn-113

Appl Radiat Isot. 2014 May:87:162-5. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2013.11.131. Epub 2013 Dec 10.

Authors

Miguel Roteta¹, Virginia Peyres², Eduardo García-Toraño²

Affiliations

¹ Laboratorio de Metrología de Radiaciones Ionizantes, CIEMAT, Spain. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Laboratorio de Metrología de Radiaciones Ionizantes, CIEMAT, Spain.

PMID: 24365465
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2013.11.131

Abstract

The radionuclide (113)Sn is a quasi-monoenergetic gamma emitter often used in the efficiency calibration of gamma spectrometers in the energy region around 390keV. This paper presents the results of the standardization of this radionuclide by three methods: integral (4π-γ) counting with a well-type NaI(Tl) detector, liquid scintillation counting applying the CIEMAT-NIST method and 4π coincidence counting (conversion electron-X) with a digital coincidence system.

Keywords: Coincidence Counting; Gamma counting; Liquid Scintillation Counting; Radionuclide standardization; Sn-113.