SP-510-3 Interpretations of Gamma Spectra

Prerequisites: SP-502-4 or equivalent experience.

Description:
A review of spectral features and the identification of these features in real spectra.

Course Content:

• Full Energy Peak
• Single Escape Peak
• Double Escape Peak
• Annihilation Peak(s)
• X-Ray Peaks
• Sum Peaks
• Backscatter Peak
• Germanium Escape Peak

The ability to recognize the various features that may occur in a gamma spectrum are then used to interpret “problem” spectra.