Analysis of nuclear quadrupole resonance signals from mixtures

Signal Processing

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 146-157

  Somasundaram, S D ^a   Jakobsson, A ^b   Smith, J A S ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Detection and estimation; Explosives detection; Nuclear quadrupole resonance; Polymorph quantification; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

DRUG PRODUCTS; EXPLOSIVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLYMORPHISM; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL DETECTION;

EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; NUCLEAR QUADRUPOLE RESONANCE (NQR); POLYMORPH QUANTIFICATION; SIGNAL PARAMETERS;

SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548580349     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2007.07.009     Document Type: Article

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