An unfolding method for directional spectrometers

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 539-543

  Reginatto, Marcel ^a   Luszik Bhadra, M ^a   d'Errico, F ^b,c  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; ENTROPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; NEUTRON DOSIMETRY; NEUTRON RADIATION; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION FIELD; SPECTROMETER;

ANISOTROPY; BODY BURDEN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 4644275786     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch277     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Bartlett,D.T.,Drake,P.,d'Errico,F.,Luszik-Bhadra,M., Matzke, M. and Tanner, R. J. The importance of the direction distribution of neutron fluence, and methods of determinaton. Nucl. Instr. Meth. A476, 386-394 (2002).
2. Matzke, M., Kluge, H. and Luszik-Bhadra, M. Directional information of neutron fields, Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 70, 261-264 (1997).
3. Matzke, M., d'Errico, F., Hecker, O. and Luszik-Bhadra, M. Energy and directional distribution of neutrons, Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 85, 93-97 (1999).
4. Reginatto, M. and Goldhagen, P. MAXED, a computer code for maximum entropy deconvolution of multisphere neutron spectrometer data. Health Phys. 77, 579-583 (1999).
5. Bolognese, T., Boschung, M., Coeck, M., Curzio, G., d'Errico, F., Lacoste, V., Lindborg, L., Luszik-Bahdra, M., Pochat, J.-L., Reginatto, M., Schuhmacher, H., Tanner R. and Vanhavere, F. Individual monitoring in workplaces with mixed neutron/photon radiation. In: Proceedings of Ninth Neutron Dosimetry Symposium on Advances in Nuclear Particle Dosimetry for Radiation protection and Medicine, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands 28 September-3 October (2003). Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 110(1-4).
6. Luszik-Bhadra, M., d'Errico, F., Hecker, O. and Matzke, M. A wide-range direction neutron spectrometer. Nucl. Instr. Meth. A476, 291-297 (2002).
7. Luszik-Bhadra, M., Reginatto, M. and Lacoste, V. Measurement of energy and direction distribution of neutron and photon fluences in workplace fields. In: Proceedings of Ninth Neutron Dosimetry Symposium on Advances in Nuclear Particle Dosimetry for Radiation protection and Medicine, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands 28 September-3 October (2003). Radiat. Prot. Dosim 110(1-4).
8. d'Errico, F., Giusti, V., Reginatto, M. and Wiegel, B. A telescope-design directional neutron spectrometer. In: Proceedings of Ninth Neutron Dosimetry Symposium on Advances in Nuclear Particle Dosimetry for Radiation protection and Medicine, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands 28 September-3 October (2003). Radiat. Prot. Dosim 110(1-4).
9. von der Linden, W. Maximum-entropy data analysis. Appl. Phys. A60, 155-165 (1995).
10. Zhu, C., Byrd, R. H., Lu, P. and Nocedal, J. Algorithm 778: L-BFGS-B, FORTRAN routines for large scale bound constrained optimization. ACM T. Math. Software 23, 550-560 (1997).
11. Reginatto, M., Goldhagen, P. and Neumann, S. Spectrum unfolding, sensitivity analysis and propagation of uncertainties with the maximum entropy deconvolution code MAXED. Nucl. Instr. Meth. A476, 242-246 (2002).
12. della Francesca, P. Libellus de quinque corporibus regularibus. Codice Urbinate Latino 632, Vatican Library (ca. 1480).
13. Guldbakke, S., Dietz, E., Kluge, H. and Schlegel, D. PTB Neutron fields for the calibration of neutron sensitive devices. In: Strahlenschutz: Physik und Meßtechnik. (Köln: TÜV Rheinland GmbH) pp. 240-247 (1994).
14. Lodha, S. K. and Franke, R. Scattered data techniques for surfaces. In: Proceedings of Dagstuhl Conference on Scientific Visualization. Hagen, H., Nielson, G. and Post, F. (Eds). (IEEE Computer Society Press) pp. 182-222 (1999).
15. Craven, P. and Whaba, G. Smoothing noisy data with spline Functions. Numer. Math. 31, 377-403 (1979).