Recognition of compton scattering patterns in advanced compton telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6700, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Zoglauer, Andreas ^a   Boggs, Steven E ^a   Andritschke, Robert ^b,c   Kanbach, Gottfried ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MPI HALBLEITERLABOR   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayes' law; Compton scattering; Compton telescope; Event reconstruction; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPTON SCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STATISTICS;

BAYES' LAW; COMPTON TELESCOPES; EVENT RECONSTRUCTION;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 42149123351     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.738990     Document Type: Conference Paper

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