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Frank Herbert Attix (Auth.) Assorbimento Fotoni - Introduction To Radiological Physics and Radiation Dosimetry (1986) - 141-176-32

The document discusses coefficients related to the interaction and absorption of gamma rays in matter. It provides equations for the total mass energy-transfer coefficient depending on whether the photon energy is above or below certain electron shell edges. It also defines the mass energy-absorption coefficient, which accounts for energy lost through secondary electron interactions and is related to but generally lower than the energy-transfer coefficient.

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Frank Herbert Attix (Auth.) Assorbimento Fotoni - Introduction To Radiological Physics and Radiation Dosimetry (1986) - 141-176-32

The document discusses coefficients related to the interaction and absorption of gamma rays in matter. It provides equations for the total mass energy-transfer coefficient depending on whether the photon energy is above or below certain electron shell edges. It also defines the mass energy-absorption coefficient, which accounts for energy lost through secondary electron interactions and is related to but generally lower than the energy-transfer coefficient.

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VII.

TOTAL INTERACTION COEFFICIENTS 155

p is appropriately included only where beam geometry allows the escape (i.e. non-
detection) of the Rayleigh-scattered rays. Since this type of scattering usually deflects
photons through only small angles, very narrow beam geometry is required to ob-
serve the effects of Rayleigh scattering.

6. Mass Energy-Transfer Coefficient


The total mass energy-transfer coefficient for y-ray interactions, neglecting any (y,
p) photonuclear contribution, is given in units of cm2/g or rn2/kg by
-Ptr= - 7tr +-+-
‘Jtr Ktr

P P P P

P
hv - P K Y k h F K ]
hv
+ u- [
P hv
;
- TI+ - [“v - 2rr4,c2]
hv
(7.57)

for photons having hv above the K-edge in the elemental absorbing medium, and
neglecting L-fluorescence in comparison with K-fluorescence. For hv lying between
the K- and L-edges, Eq. (7.57) is replaced by
-Ptr
= - 71, + 1.
P P P

(7.58)

since neither K-fluorescence nor pair production is relevant in that case. The terms
in Eqs. (7.57) and (7.58) have been defined in Eqs. (7.35) and (7.36) for the pho-
toelectriceffect, Eqs. (7.20), (7.22), and(7.24)for thecomptoneffect, andEq. (7.53)
for pair production.

C. Mass Energy-Absorption Coefficient


The mass energy-absorption coefficient pen/pis related to the mass energy-transfer
coefficient by
-Pen-- -(I
Ptr
-d (7.59)
P P
in which g represents the average fraction of secondary-electron energy that is lost
in radiative interactions, that is, bremsstrahlung production and (for positrons) in-
flight annihilation. The evaluation ofg will be discussed in Chapter 8 , Section I.G.
For low values of Z and hv, g approaches zero and ~ , , l p p,Jp. For increasing Z
or hv, g increases gradually, so that, for example, in Pb with hv = 10 MeV, peJp
= 0.74pJp.
It should be pointed out that, while p / p and ptr/pare based only on the hv and
Z actually present at the point of photon interaction, peJp must also be based on
an assumption about the medium through which the secondary electrons pass in
slowing down. Conventionally the interaction point is assumed to be surrounded

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