Geophysical muon imaging: Feasibility and limits

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1348-1361

  Lesparre, N ^a   Gibert, D ^a   Marteau, J ^b   Declais Y ^b   Carbone, D ^c   Galichet, E ^d  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d Bioinformatique et Chimie Moléculaire   (France)

Author keywords

Inverse theory; Spatial analysis; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE ZONE; CANDIDATE TARGET; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; DENSITY RESOLUTION; DYNAMIC EFFECTS; ENERGY SPECTRA; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; GEOMETRICAL CHARACTERISTICS; GEOPHYSICAL IMAGING; HARSH ENVIRONMENT; INVERSE THEORY; MUON DETECTORS; PROPAGATION MODELS; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TARGET STRUCTURE; ZENITH ANGLE;

CHARGED PARTICLES; GEOPHYSICS; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EXPERIMENTS;

GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; IMAGING METHOD; INVERSE ANALYSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 78449236775     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04790.x     Document Type: Article

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