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Data on absorption of X-rays and gamma-rays are required for many scientific, engineering and medical applications. Available tables, such as Hubbell and Seltzer (1995), generally include cross-sections and mass attenuation coefficients for the elements and a number of compounds or mixtures. Instead of interpolating tabulated values and using the mixture rule, a lot of manual work can be saved by generating data as needed, using a suitable software. Berger and Hubbell (1987/99) developed XCOM for calculating mass attenuation coefficients or photon interaction cross-sections for any element, compound or mixture at energies from 1 keV to 100 GeV. Recently, this well-known and much used program was transformed to the Windows platform by Gerward et al. (2001). The Windows version, called WinXCom, runs under the Windows operating system and provides an interface that facilitates defining, redefining and saving substances in a substance definition list. Once a substance has been defined, it can be used for defining compounds or mixtures. It is even possible to define mixtures of already defined compounds or mixtures. The substance definition list comes with a predefined list of the first

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Author

L. Gerward; N. Guilbert; K.B. Jensen; H. Levring

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0969-806X)

Published

2004

Language

EN

Field

Materials Science (Physical Sciences)