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Detectors and detection limits in INAA

I. General theoretical relationships between detector specifications and detection limits

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Expressions have been derived which link detection limits in INAA with the Ge-detector specifications, provided by the vendors: relative efficiency, peak-to-Compton ratio and resolution. Situations have been distinguished in which a peak has to be detected on a Compton background, or on a natural background. The expressions allow for a direct indication of the improvement in detection limits, or the shortening of tumaround-time to attain equal detection limits, when a given detector is replaced by a detector with better specifications.

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Bode, P. Detectors and detection limits in INAA. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 222, 117–125 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02034257

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