Abstract
Detector systems for the measurement of radioactivity in various fields of applications need to be calibrated in terms of efficiency by means of radioactive sources of a given radionuclide with known activity. It is the task of national metrology institutes (NMIs) and other calibration laboratories to provide corresponding activity standards which are required in nuclear medicine, environmental radioactivity, industry, and several other research areas.
This chapter describes important methods for primary and secondary activity standardization as well as ways to establish the traceability to primary standards and an international comparability of activity standards.
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Arnold, D., Kossert, K., Nähle, O.J. (2019). Calibration of Radioactive Sources. In: Fleck, I., Titov, M., Grupen, C., Buvat, I. (eds) Handbook of Particle Detection and Imaging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47999-6_9-2
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