Alarm criteria in radiation portal monitoring

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 569-580

  Burr, Tom ^a   Gattiker, James R ^a   Myers, Kary ^a   Tompkins, George ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm criteria; Background suppression; Border security; Experimental design; Passive counting; Sequential testing

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; GAMMA RAYS; MONITORING; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DETECTORS; VEHICLES;

BACKGROUND SUPPRESSION; BORDER SECURITY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; SEQUENTIAL TESTING;

NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

ALARM MONITOR; ARTICLE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION MONITORING; SENSOR;

EQUIPMENT FAILURE; GAMMA RAYS; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; RADIATION MONITORING; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33847643753     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2006.11.010     Document Type: Article

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