A novel Compton suppression device has been developed at the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority of Finland to improve the sensitivity of measurements in the Gamma Laboratory. It utilizes γ-γ anticoincidence, but operates as a full coincidence system. Specific software has been developed for the sorting, visualization and analysis of list mode data produced by the multi-detector list-mode devices in the Gamma Laboratory. By utilizing the software, the coincidence data can be accessed and the true-coincidence losses of photo-peaks of multiple gamma-ray-emitting nuclides restored in the analysis. This simplifies data analysis and further increases the sensitivity of the device in low count-rate gamma spectrometry. A detailed Geant4 simulation model of the device was developed and used to optimize the device as well as to support calibrations and complex analysis tasks. The setup has been integrated to current laboratory information management system used in the Gamma Laboratory. Compton suppression reduces the continuous background seen by the high-purity germanium detector by a factor of 3-10, in addition to comparable reduction in the Compton continuum of any peaks in the spectrum. A comparison with the results of conventional gamma-ray spectrometry is presented.
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