Exploiting spin echo decay in the detection of nuclear quadrupole resonance signals

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 925-933

  Somasundaram, Samuel D ^a,b   Jakobsson, Andreas ^a,c   Smith, John A S ^b   Althoefer, Kaspar ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Explosives detection; Multidimensional signal processing; Quadrupole resonance; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; NUCLEAR QUADRUPOLE RESONANCE SIGNALS; QUADRUPOLE RESONANCE; SPIN ECHO DECAY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPLOSIVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RESONANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 33947671889     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.890413     Document Type: Article

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