Spectral gamma detectors for hand-held Radioisotope Identification Devices (RIDs) for nuclear security applications

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3111-3118

  Swoboda, M ^a   Arlt, R ^a   Gostilo, V ^b   Lupilov, A ^b   Majorov, M ^c   Moszynski, M ^d   Syntfeld, A ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^b BALTIC SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS   (Latvia)

^c Scientific Engineering Center Nuclear Physics Research   (Russian Federation)

^d SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOISOTOPES; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM TELLURIDE; SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

RADIATION ALARM; RADIOISOTOPE IDENTIFICATION DEVICES (RID); SPECTRAL GAMMA DETECTORS;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 33144472119     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.860199     Document Type: Conference Paper

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