Statistical data evaluation in mobile gamma spectrometry: An optimization of on-line search strategies in the scenario of lost point sources

Health Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 563-570

  Hjerpe, Thomas ^a   Finck, Robert R ^b   Samuelsson, Christer ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Radiation Protection Authority   (Sweden)

Author keywords

137Cs; Emergency planning; Radioactive materials; Spectrometry, gamma

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; IODINE 131;

AIR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAR; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; IONIZING RADIATION; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION PROTECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034997567     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200106000-00006     Document Type: Article

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