Neutron spectrometry using artificial neural networks

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 425-431

  Vega Carrillo, Héctor René ^a   Martín Hernández Dávila, Víctor ^a   Manzanares Acuña, Eduardo ^a   Sánchez, Gema A Mercado ^a   De La Torre, Maria Pilar Iñiguez ^b   Barquero, Raquel ^c   Palacios, Francisco ^b,d   Villafañe, Roberto Méndez ^b,d   Arteaga, Tarcicio Arteaga ^a,e   Rodriguez, José Manuel Ortiz ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE ZACATECAS   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO RÍO HORTEGA   (Spain)

^d EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY MIGUEL DE CERVANTES   (Spain)

^e Envases de Zacatecas   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; MCNP; Unfolding

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NEUTRON SOURCES; NEUTRON SPECTROMETERS;

MCNP; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERROR; UNFOLDING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 33244489840     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2005.10.003     Document Type: Article

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