Measurement principle in which elementary particles resulting from nuclear reactions of charged particles with nuclei in a material are applied in order to measure the amount and depth distribution of elements in materials.
Source:
PAC, 2021, 93, 69. 'Vocabulary of radioanalytical methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2020)' on page 83 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0302)