Point source detection and characterization for vehicle RADIATION portal monitors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3020-3025

  Runkle, Robert C ^a,b   Mercier, Theresa M ^b   Anderson, Kevin K ^b   Carlson, Deborah K ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Matched filtering; Point source detection; Radiation portal monitoring

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR MATERIALS; POINT SOURCE DETECTION; RADIATION PORTAL MONITORS (RPM);

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER MONITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PORTALS; WHITE NOISE;

TARGETS;

EID: 33144472489     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.862910     Document Type: Conference Paper

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