Efficiencies of Sodium Iodide Crystals

Abstract

Efficiencies for monoenergetic gamma rays, emanating from an axial point source and incident on sodium iodide crystals of 1.5 in. diameter and of various heights, have been calculated by numerical integration methods. The crystals considered are right circular cylinders of heights 0.125, 0.25, 0.375, 0.50, 0.75, 1.5, 2.0, and 3.0 in. Seventeen photon energies in the range from 0.025 to 10.0 Mev were used. Fourteen distances from source to crystal face in the range 0.1 to 50.0 cm were used. Efficiencies for crystals of diameters other than 1.5 in. may be obtained from these results. Relative photoelectric efficiencies were not calculated.