Abstract：
:Variations in the atomic composition, and mass and electron densities of polystyrene and polymethylmethacrylate (PMM) plastics were assessed from experimentally determined mass attenuation coefficients for 125I and 137Cs gamma rays. The means and standard deviations in the mass densities of 16 samples of PMM and 10 samples of polystyrene were found to be 1.174 +/- 1.4% and 1.042 +/- 0.6% g/cm3, respectively. Based upon transmission measurements on various solutions of ethyl alcohol in water, the standard deviations in the effective atomic numbers of PMM and polystyrene were determined to be 0.77% and 1.3%, respectively. Based upon experimentally determined mass attenuation coefficients for 137Cs, the standard deviations in electron density for PMM and polystyrene were 0.5% and 1.2% respectively. Similar measurements on tap water and two grades of distilled water failed to detect any differences in atomic composition.
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Med Physjournal_title
Medical physicsauthors
Schulz RJ,Nath Rdoi
10.1118/1.594528subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1979-03-01 00:00:00pages
153-6issue
2eissn
0094-2405issn
2473-4209journal_volume
6pub_type
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