A framework for the solution of inverse radiation transport problems

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 6 PART 2, 2010, Pages 3734-3743

  Mattingly, John ^a   Mitchell, Dean J ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse problems; radiation detector; spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

DETERMINISTIC TRANSPORT; ESSENTIAL COMPONENT; FULL-SPECTRUM; FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM; GAMMA SPECTRUM; HIGH-RESOLUTION GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT; NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION SOLVER; PHOTON EMISSIONS; PHOTON TRANSPORT; PHOTOPEAKS; PLUTONIUM METAL; RADIATION SOURCE; RADIATION TRANSPORT; RADIATION TRANSPORT PROBLEMS; RADIATION-SENSING; SOURCE TERMS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL FEATURE; TRANSPORT MODELS; TRANSPORT PROBLEMS;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS; PLUTONIUM; QUANTUM OPTICS; RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EID: 78650310912     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2076371     Document Type: Article

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