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In this work, we propose a semi-empirical method for determining the thickness of pipe-wall, of which the determination is performed by combining the experimental and Monte Carlo simulation data. The testing measurements show that this is an efficient method to measure the thickness of pipe-wall. In addition, this work also shows that it could use a NaI(Tl) scintillation detector and a low activity source to measure the thickness of pipe-wall, which is simple, quick and high accuracy method.
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The authors are grateful to Vietnamese Ministry of Industry of Trade, VNUHCM-University of Science for supporting this study.
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Nguyen, V.H., Tam, H.D., Tran, L.B. et al. A semi-empirical method for measuring thickness of pipe-wall using gamma scattering technique. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 308, 1011–1016 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-015-4579-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-015-4579-2