Numerical simulation study of effects of X-ray scattering on areal density measurement results

The effects of X-ray scattering on areal density measurement results and an expression of measurement results deviation are obtained with a qualitative analysis. The effects at different photographic layout, energy sources and material types are studied using Monte-Carlo method. The simulation results show that without protective windows, the scattering from the object would reduce the measurement results; with protective windows, the front window scattering has little effects on the measurement results, and the effects of back window scattering are related to the sample-scintillator distance, the shorter the distance is, the greater the effects are; in a certain energy range, the lower the energy of photon is, the larger the measurement result error is; the bigger the atomic number and density of the object are, the larger the measurement result error is.