Study of Rayleigh to Compton scattering ratio for pharmaceutical ingredients at 8 keV to 32 keV X-ray energy

Abstract

Rayleigh to Compton scattering ratio will takes a major and most significant role in the non-destructive nuclear radiation technique. This non destructive technique is feasible in the industry, particularly in the drug manufacturing field. The R/C ratio could be theoretically estimated by using the atomic form factor (F) and incoherent (Compton) scattering function (S) for some pharmaceutical ingredients at different scattering angle from 20o to 180o with defined photon energy from 8 keV to 32 keV X-rays. The opted samples are low Z compounds and are inspecting an interaction with x-rays and studied the variation of Zeff, R/C, and electron density of respective samples with the function of scattering angle. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd.