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Chapter 1 - Radioactive Decay and the Origin of Gamma- and X-Radiation
Table is Isotopes Browne, E., Firestone R. B., Baglin, C.M. and Chu, S.Y.F. (1998). Table of Isotopes, Wiley, New York. This book is now accompanied by a CD containing the nuclear data tables.	http://www.wiley.com/toi
Chart of Nuclides An interactive on-line version of the Chart of the Nuclides from the US NNDC	http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/chart/ see alsoData page
Chapter 2 - Interactions of Radiation with Matter
Attenuation Data An excellent Internet source of attenuation and absorption data is: (Table 3 is particularly useful.)	http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/XrayMassCoef/cover.ihtml
Chapter 3 - Semiconductor Detectors for Gamma-Ray Spectrometry
Detector Construction " There is an excellent description of detector construction at:	http://www.ortec-online.com/detectors/photon/a1_1.htm
CdZnTe detectors Information on CdZnTe detectors: eV Products. This site has links to a number of literature sources dealing with the theoretical and technical aspects of the material.	http://www.evproducts.com http://www.evproducts.com/white_papers_news.html
XRF Corporation	http://www.xrfcorp.com
Liquid Nitrogen Generator Information on a liquid nitrogen generator from Rigaku/MSC	http://www.rigakumsc.com/cryo/nitrogen.html
Chapter 4 - Electronics for Gamma-Ray Spectrometry
TRP The role of the transistor reset preamplifier in germanium gamma spectroscopy systems, Application Note	THIS LINK IS NOW DEAD
ORTEC and Canberra Catalogues The catalogues of ORTEC and Canberra have introductory sections which are worth reading for an outline of the electronic processes used in their equipment. Their web sites are at:	http://www.ortec-online.com http://www.canberra.com
Electronic Glossary Those who have been baffled by the (necessary) electronic jargon might try the following for assistance	http://www.maxmon.com/glossary.htm
Chapter 8 - True Coincidence Summing
GESPECOR Information about the availability if GESPECOR can be found on the Internet at:	http://www.matec-online.de
Chapter 9 - Computer Analysis of Gamma-Ray Spectra
Spectrum Analysis Programs The MCA emulator and spectrum analysis programs referred to in this chapter were: From ORTEC:	http://www.ortec-online.com/software/software-available.htm
From Canberra:	http://www.canberra.com/products/831.asp
Hpermet-PC - Off-line spectrum analysis program	http://www.iki.kfki.hu/nuclear/hypc/index.html
From JF Computing. FitzPeaks off-line spectrum analysis package.	http://www.jimfitz.co.uk/
From Nuclear Training Services Ltd: CompAct off-line program for activity estimation. Intended for neutron activation analysis and general comparative analysis. Efficiency curves are not used.	http://www.gammaspectrometry.co.uk/compact
Chapter 10 - Scintillation Spectrometry
o Details of many scintillators can be found on the Saint-Gobain web site, where there is a link to the 'BrilLanCe Products Whitepaper'	http://www.detectors.saint-gobain.com
Chapter 13 - Low Count Rate Systems
Canberra Application Notes Canberra's list of application notes can be found at:	http://www.canberra.com/literature/967.asp
ORTEC Application Notes ORTEC's list of application notes can be found at:	http://www.ortec-online.com/application-notes/application-notes.htm
PGT Well Detectors PGT Inc., Well Detectors with the Through-Hole Advantage.	http://www.pgt.com/Nuclear/Well.html
Bigger-is-Better? Keyser and Wagner (1990). The benefits of using super-large germanium gamma-ray detectors for the quantitative determination of environmental radionuclides.	http://www.ortec-online.com/pdf/biggerbetter.pdf
Low Background Systems Considerations for Environmental Gamma Spectroscopy systems Ultra Low-Background Detector Systems Ultra Low-Background Shield - Model 777	http://www.canberra.com/pdf/Literature/envapn.pdf http://www.canberra.com/pdf/Literature/ultralowbg.pdf http://www.canberra.com/pdf/Products/Detectors_pdf/2m777.pdf
Compton Suppression On active background reduction: 'Compton Suppression... Made Easy', Appl Note AN-D-8901	http://www.canberra.com/pdf/Literature/comptonsupp.pdf
Chapter 14 - High Count-rate systems
High CR Performance Twomey, Keyser, Simpson, and Wagner(1991). High-count-rate spectroscopy with Ge detectors: quantitative evaluation of the performance of high-rate systems	http://www.ortec-online.com/pdf/hcrpaper.pdf
HCR Guide Canberra Application Note (1993). A Practical Guide to High Count-rate Germanium Gamma Spectroscopy	http://www.canberra.com/pdf/Literature/nan0013.pdf
Performance of DSP Canberra Application Note (1999). Performance of Digital Signal Processors for Gamma Spectrometry	http://www.canberra.com/pdf/Literature/a0338.pdf
DSP vs Analogue Vo, Russo and Sampson, T.E. (1998)(Originally published as Los Alamos Report, LA-13393-MS)	http://www.ortec-online.com/pdf/losalamospaper.pdf
High Performance HPGe Keyser and Twomey (2003) Developments in High-Performance HPGe Detector Spectrometer Systems for Safeguards Applications	http://www.ortec-online.com/pdf/paperinmm.pdf
Chapter 15 - Ensuring Quality in Gamma-Ray Spectrometry
Validation Koskelo and Schwenn, H.R. (2000) Verification of gamma spectroscopy programs: N42.14 and beyond. This paper on using the ANSI N42 tests as a basis for testing the quality of spectrum analysis programs	http://www.canberra.com/pdf/literature/g2k-paper.pdf
Intercomparisons Information on recent and ongoing intercomparisons	http://www.iaea.org/programmes/aqcs/interlab_studies.shtml
Spiked soil Intercomparison IAEA (2007) Report on IAEA-CU-2006-03 (spiked soil, water and grass)	http://www.iaea.org/programmes/aqcs/icpt/opt06.pdf
Decker (2001) EML GAMMA SPECTROMETRY DATA EVALUATION PROGRAM, EML-612 Environmental Measurements Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy	http://www.eml.st.dhs.gov/publications/reports/eml602.pdf
TECDOC-619 This website carries the IAEA TECDOC-619 data and some test spectra: IAEA TECDOC-619 data: Test Spectra in general and download of IAEA G1 and Sanderson spectra: The SpecMaker program can be obtained free of charge at:	http://www.gammaspectrometry.co.uk/iaea http://www.gammaspectrometry.co.uk/testspectra http://www. gammaspectrometry.co.uk/specmaker
IAEA Test Spectra These are available on the website of the Technical University of Delft. but a more convenient download is available on this site. (The tudelft website URLs are not suitable for quoting directly.)	1995 Spectra 2002 Spectra
ANSI and IEEE Documents ANSI documents can be purchased online at:	http://www.ansi.org/ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/standards.jsp
Chapter 16 - Gamma Spectrometry of NORM
IAEA XGAMMA Data The recently published evaluated IAEA data (2007) can be accessed at:	http://www-nds.iaea.org/xgamma_standards/
Chapter 17 - Applications
CTBTO Information on the CTBTO can be obtained from their website at:	http://www.ctbto.org
Uranium Enrichment Canberra (1996) IMCA: A Dedicated Instrument for Uranium Enrichment Measurements in Safeguards Inspections, Canberra Application note. This note is followed by a number of useful references to programs for achieving isotopic analysis.	http://www.canberra.com/literature/1048.asp
U-Pu InSpector A Dedicated Instrument for Assessing the Isotopic Composition of Uranium and Plutonium, Canberra Application note.	http://www.canberra.com/literature/1049.asp
Pu Isotopic Codes Koskelo, Wilkins and Fleissner (2001) Comparison Of The Performance Of Different Plutonium Isotopic Codes Using a Range Of Detector Types	http://www.canberra.com/literature/1180.asp
CZT detectors Arlt, Ivanov and Parnham (2000), Advantages and Use of CdZnTe Detectors in Safeguards Measurements available at:	http://www.evproducts.com/white_papers_news.html

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