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    Activity (Of Radionuclides) : Home Education Resources NDT Course Material Radiography

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    The document discusses the concept of activity as it relates to radiography. It defines activity as the rate of radioactive decay in an amount of radioactive material, with the curie and becquerel used to quantify activity. It explains that activity does not depend on mass, and is instead determined by the number of radioactive atoms present. The document also introduces specific activity, which relates the activity of a radioactive material to its mass or volume.

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    1/28/13 Activity

    Home - Education Resources - NDT Course Material - Radiography


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    Radiography

    Introduction
    Activity (of Radionuclides) History
    Pre se nt State
    Future Dire ction

    The quantity which expresses the degree of Physics of Radiography


    Nature of Pe ne trating
    radioactivity or the radiation producing R adiation
    potential of a given amount of radioactive X-rays
    Gam m a R ays
    material is activity. The curie was originally Activity
    De cay R ate
    defined as that amount of any radioactive -C arbon 14 Dating
    Ionization
    material that disintegrates at the same rate as Inve rse Square Law
    one gram of pure radium. The curie has Inte raction of R T/Matte r
    Atte nuation C oe fficie nt
    since been defined more precisely as a Half-Value Laye r
    Source s of Atte nuation
    quantity of radioactive material in which 3.7 -C om pton Scatte ring
    x 1010 atoms disintegrate per second. The Ge om e tric Unsharpne ss
    Filte rs in R adiography
    International System (SI) unit for activity is Scatte r/R adiation C ontrol
    R adiation Safe ty
    the Becquerel (Bq), which is that quantity of
    radioactive material in which one atom is Equipment & Materials
    X-ray Ge ne rators
    transformed per second. The radioactivity of R adio Isotope Source s
    a given amount of radioactive material does R adiographic Film
    Ex posure Vaults
    not depend upon the mass of material present. For example, two one-curie sources of Cs-137
    might have very different masses depending upon the relative proportion of non-radioactive Techniques & Calibrations
    Im aging C onside ration
    atoms present in each source. Radioactivity is expressed as the number of curies or becquerels C ontrast
    De finition
    per unit mass or volume. R adiographic De nsity
    C haracte ristic C urve s
    Ex posure C alculations
    The concentration of radioactivity, or the relationship between the mass of radioactive material C ontrolling Q uality
    and the activity, is called "specific activity." Specific activity is expressed as the number of curies Film Proce ssing
    Vie wing R adiographs
    or becquerels per unit mass or volume. Each gram of cobalt-60 will contain approximately 50 R adiograph Inte rp-W e lds
    R adiograph Inte rp -
    curies. Iridium-192 will contain 350 curies for every gram of material. The shorter half-life, the C astings
    less amount of material that will be required to produce a given activity or curies. The higher
    specific activity of iridium results in physically smaller sources. This allows technicians to place AR edvanced Techniques
    al-tim e R adiography
    the source in closer proximity to the film while maintaining geometric unsharpness requirements C om pute d Tom ography
    XR SIM
    on the radiograph. These unsharpness requirements may not be met if a source with a low
    specific activity were used at similar source to film distances. R e fe re nce s

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