Research Article

NaI(Tl) Detector Efficiency Computation Using Radioactive Parallelepiped Sources Based on Efficiency Transfer Principle

Table 5

The point and volume source’s description.
(a)

Point source’s description
PTB-NuclideEnergy
(keV)
Emission
probability %
Half-life
(days)
Activity (kBq)
1 June 2009
Uncertainty
(kBq)

241Am59.5235.9157861.05259.0±2.6

133Ba80.9934.13847.91275.3±2.8

152Eu121.7828.4 4943.29 290.0 ±4.0
244.697.49
344.2826.6
778.9012.96
964.1314.0
1408.0120.87

137Cs661.6685.2111004.98385.0±4.0

60Co1173.2399.90 1925.31 212.1 ±1.5
1332.599.98

(b)

Volume source’s description (mm) and activities, 5.05 ± 0.05 kBq
Fisher Scientific Company
Polypropylene (PP) Parallelepiped
Cross section dimensionsRadioactive PTB 152Eu solution heightThickness 
bottom and side

(125 mL) filled with 100 mL59.23 × 37.8851.021.50
(250 mL) filled with 200 mL60.48 × 60.4861.401.52