Development of a coded aperture X-Ray backscatter imager for explosive device detection

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 299-307

  Faust, Anthony A ^a   Rothschild, Richard E ^b   Leblanc, Philippe ^b   McFee, John Elton ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coded aperture; Compton scattering; Explosives detection; Nuclear imaging; X ray imaging; X ray scattering; X ray spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BOMBS (ORDNANCE); COMPTON SCATTERING; DETECTORS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LIGHT WEIGHT STRUCTURES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NITRATION; SCATTERING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY SCATTERING; X RAY SPECTROMETERS; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; X RAYS;

ANTI-PERSONNEL LANDMINES; BACKSCATTER IMAGING; CODED APERTURE; COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS; DETECTION OF EXPLOSIVES; DETECTION PROBLEMS; EXPLOSIVE DEVICES; EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; HIGH TEMPERATURES; IMAGING DETECTORS; IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICES; LAND MINES; LIGHT WEIGHTS; LOW-POWER; NUCLEAR IMAGING; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS; SAN DIEGO; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA; X-RAY IMAGING;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 60449093909     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.2009537     Document Type: Article

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