Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1877299 | Applied Radiation and Isotopes | 2006 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
This paper describes Monte Carlo simulation of intrinsic count rate performance of a scintillation gamma camera. MCNP Monte Carlo code was employed to calculate pulse height spectrum and detector efficiency. A custom code written in Fortran language was then developed to simulate, by Monte Carlo method, the distortion in pulse height spectrum due to the pile-up effect for paralyzable and nonparalyzable systems. The results of the simulations, compared with the experimental measurement of count rate performance, showed a good agreement between the two different approaches.
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Authors
Ali Asghar Mowlavi, Mario de Denaro, Maria Rosa Fornasier, Alireza Binesh,