New approach to determine orthopositronium lifetime distributions in polymers: A comparison between maximum entropy and the numerical laplace inversion methods

Macromolecules

Volumn 29, Issue 25, 1996, Pages 8249-8253

  Wang, Cai Lin ^a   Maurer, Frans H J ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; IRRADIATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; STATISTICS;

MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHOD; NUMERICAL LAPLACE INVERSION METHOD; ORTHOPOSITRONIUM LIFETIME DISTRIBUTIONS; POSITRON ANNIHILATION LIFETIME SPECTRA; ZERO TIME CHANNEL SHIFT;

POLYMERS;

EID: 0030566546     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma960639g     Document Type: Article

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