PELAN 2001: Current status of the PELAN explosives detection system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4507, Issue , 2001, Pages 226-231

  Womble, Phillip C ^a   Vourvopoulos, George ^a   Novikov, Ivan ^a   Paschal, Jon ^a  

^a WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Explosives; Man portable; Non intrusive; PELAN; UXO

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; DATA REDUCTION; EXPLOSIVES; GAMMA RAYS; NEUTRONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

PULSED ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0035762779     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.450762     Document Type: Conference Paper

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