Estimating statistical properties of eddy-current signals from steam generator tubes

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 3342-3348

  Dogandžić, Aleksandar ^a   Xiang, Ping ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Eddy current signal modelling; Maximum likelihood parameter estimation; Newton Raphson iteration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDDY CURRENTS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS; STEAM GENERATORS;

EDDY CURRENT SIGNAL MODELING; NEWTON-RAPHSON ITERATION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 25444468878     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2005.851173     Document Type: Article

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