Discrimination of photon from proton irradiation using glow curve feature extraction and vector analysis

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 120, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 268-272

  Skopec, Mar ^a,b   Loew, M ^b   Price, J L ^c   Guardala, N ^c   Moscovitch, M ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137;

ARTICLE; COSMONAUT; GAMMA RADIATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHOTON; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION FIELD; RELIABILITY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY;

EID: 33749830122     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nci533     Document Type: Article

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