An EM approach to mineral analysis using natural gamma rays

Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 793-808

  Moran, Bill ^a   Huynh, Du Q ^b   Wang, Xuezhi ^a   Edwards, Michael ^c   Harris, Andrew ^c   La Scala, Barbara F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Scantech   (Australia)

Author keywords

Expectation maximization; Gamma ray detectors; Maximum likelihood estimation; Poisson processes; Statistical signal processing

Indexed keywords

BELT CONVEYORS; BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; EXPECTATION - MAXIMIZATIONS; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; GAMMA RAY DETECTOR; GAMMA-RAY EMISSION; POISSON PROCESS; STATISTICAL MODELING; STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 67349163601     PISSN: 10512004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsp.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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