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Aspects of the Past and Present, and Future Prospects for INAA Software: Achieving the Ultimate

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The germanium semiconductor detector revolutionized NAA in the late sixties. Software was used from early on to analyze the spectra obtained and compute the concentrations. Since then, our understanding of the physics playing a part has improved, and desktop computing power has increased enormously. Highly accurate nuclear data, procedures and algorithms have become available. However, the software available for gamma-ray spectrometry, in general, and INAA specifically has not changed essentially since the early 1970s. In this paper, a brief overview of the history of such software is given, current developments enumerated and the ultimate, not-yet-existing software for gamma-ray spectrometry and INAA is sketched.

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Blaauw, M. Aspects of the Past and Present, and Future Prospects for INAA Software: Achieving the Ultimate. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 244, 661–664 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006758526267

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