Exploiting temperature dependency in the detection of NQR signals

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1610-1616

  Jakobsson, Andreas ^a   Mossberg, Magnus ^a   Rowe, Michael D ^b   Smith, John A S ^b  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Detection; Estimation; Maximum likehood (ML); Nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON RESONANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

APPROXIMATE MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD DETECTOR; NUCLEAR QUADRUPOLE RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCY;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 33646062839     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2006.871969     Document Type: Article

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