Re: Gamma Spec

[Rachid Zitouni <azittouni@yahoo.com>]

No, this would not be correct. Radiation counting is
of statistical nature. You need to count over again.

Dr. Abderrachid Zitouni

--- dpharrison@aep.com wrote:
> 
> 
> Question for gamma spec SMEs (which I am not):
> 
> You count a sample on a HPGe for a certain amount of
> time, but it doesn't meet a
> specific radionuclide LLD.  You calculate the new
> time where the LLD will be
> met.  Can you, instead of recounting the sample for
> the entire duration of the
> new calculated count time, start the count on top of
> the original spectrum and
> just count for the difference in time between the
> original count time and the
> calculated new time?
> 
> dpharrison@aep.com
> 
> 
>
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