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Prompt gamma neutron activation analysis (PGAA): recent developments and applications

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Prompt gamma neutron activation analysis has become an important part of the analytical toolkit, practiced at several research reactors worldwide. An extensive review of the physics, engineering, and applications of the technique was published in 2004: the present work gives an overview and survey of the literature in the succeeding dozen years.

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BNCT

Boron neutron capture therapy

CD-ROM

Compact disk read-only memory

FRM II

Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz

IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

INAA

Instrumental neutron activation analysis

MLZ

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum

NAA

Neutron activation analysis

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NT

Neutron tomography

PGAA

Prompt-gamma activation analysis

PGAI

Prompt-gamma activation imaging

PGNAA

Prompt-gamma neutron activation analysis

SINQ

Swiss Spallation Neutron Source

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Lindstrom, R.M., Révay, Z. Prompt gamma neutron activation analysis (PGAA): recent developments and applications. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 314, 843–858 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-017-5483-8

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