Inherent in the use of radioisotope sources with secondary fluorescers is the background produced by scattering of the source photons from the exciter system. A Monte Carlo program has been developed that is capable of simulating the backscattered photon spectrum as a function of the system geometry, including shielding and collimation variations. This computer program generates the scattered photon spectrum incident on both the sample and detector. The program is applied to a commercially available exciter system to study the effect of specific geometric design changes on the scattered spectrum.