calc_DoseRate: Estimate the in-situ wet gamma dose rate

In tzerk/gammaSpec: Analyse Gamma Spectra of NaI(Tl) Scintillation Radiation Detectors

Description

This function estimates the in-situ gamma dose rate of the provided gamma spectrum based on the recorded countrate and comparing the integrated sum to that of an internal calibration spectrum.

Usage

calc_DoseRate(data, energy.min = get_EnergyThreshold(),
  energy.max = NULL, background.correction = TRUE, plot = TRUE,
  plot.combine = TRUE, app = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

data	required: An SPE file imported with read_SPE
energy.min	numeric (default: 500): Lower integration limit of the photon energy (keV).
energy.max	numeric (optional): upper integration limit of the photon energy (keV).
background.correction	logical (default: TRUE): If TRUE a background signal (included in this package) is subtracted from both the measured and the calibration spectrum.
plot	logical (default: TRUE): Show or hide the plot(s).
plot.combine	logical (default: TRUE): Combine all plots in a single plot device.
app	logical (default: FALSE): Start the shiny application (requires the the shiny package). If TRUE all other arguments are ignored.
...	Additional arguments: verbose. Further arguments to be passed to plot or, if app = TRUE, to runApp.

Value

Returns terminal output, a plot and a list.

Examples

## Load Example Data
file <- system.file("extdata", "Nievenheim_DORNIE_1.spe", package = "gammaSpec")

## Import SPE files
spec <- read_SPE(file)

## Estimate the in-situ gamma dose rate
res <- calc_DoseRate(data = spec,
                     energy.min = 1000,
                     energy.max = 2000,
                     background.correction = TRUE,
                     plot = TRUE,
                     plot.combine = FALSE,
                     verbose = TRUE)
                     
print(res$summary)

tzerk/gammaSpec documentation built on May 3, 2019, 2:04 p.m.