Physics and Engineering of Radiation Detection

596 Chapter 10. Software for Data Analysis Figure 10.1.20: A simple code written in the code editor of MATLAB.
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10.2. Custom-Made Data Analysis Packages 597 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 285 290 295 300 305 310 315 Time Domain Signal Time ...

598 Chapter 10. Software for Data Analysis Figure 10.1.22: Power spectral density of the data shown in Fig.10.1.21.
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10.2. Custom-Made Data Analysis Packages 599 inspect the entries in the datafile if needed. One can do this for a binary file as ...

600 Chapter 10. Software for Data Analysis of a flow diagram is a standard and very useful procedure but it is not universally p ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY 601 Bibliography [1] Brun, R. et al., An Interactive Object Oriented Framework and its application to NA49 data ana ...

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603 Chapter 11 Dosimetry and Radiation Protection The extensive use of radiation in many fields has prompted the development of ...

604 Chapter 11. Dosimetry and Radiation Protection 11.1.ADoseandDoseRate Radiation causes damage to the medium it passes through ...

11.2. Quantities Related to Dosimetry 605 Because the amount of radiation is an important factor in quantifying the possible dam ...

606 Chapter 11. Dosimetry and Radiation Protection particular type of radiation and the location of its source, that is HT,R=wR· ...

11.2. Quantities Related to Dosimetry 607 Table 11.2.1: Quality Factors for Different Types of Particles. Type of Radiation Qual ...

608 Chapter 11. Dosimetry and Radiation Protection wherewTis the tissue weighting factor andHTis the equivalent dose in the tiss ...

11.2. Quantities Related to Dosimetry 609 The tissue weighting factor for stomach iswT=0.12 as given in Table 11.2.2. The effect ...

610 Chapter 11. Dosimetry and Radiation Protection beam has an energy spectrum with a range that could be very narrow or very wi ...

11.2. Quantities Related to Dosimetry 611 Solution: The energy fluence rate for photons is given by Ψr = E ̄ dN dtda = hc ̄λ dN ...

612 Chapter 11. Dosimetry and Radiation Protection Solution: We know that 1 R=2. 58 × 10 −^4 C/kg. To determine the number of ch ...

11.2. Quantities Related to Dosimetry 613 Combining all of the above, we can reach at the following relation for the exposure fr ...

614 Chapter 11. Dosimetry and Radiation Protection Example: Calculate the exposure received in 2 hours at a distance of 3cmfrom ...

11.2. Quantities Related to Dosimetry 615 Table 11.2.4: New and old units of quantities related to radiation dose and their conv ...