Detecting stochastic nuclear quadrupole resonance signals in the presence of strong radio frequency interference

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3645-3648

  Somasundaram, S D ^a   Jakobsson, A ^b   Rowe, M D ^a   Smith, J A S ^a   Butt, N R ^b   Althoefer, K ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Detection; Estimation; Nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR); Robust methods

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIO; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; RESONANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

DETECTION; ESTIMATION; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; NUCLEAR QUADRUPOLE RESONANCE (NQR); ROBUST METHODS;

RADIO INTERFERENCE;

EID: 51449104401     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518442     Document Type: Conference Paper

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