Experimental evaluation of material identification methods with CdTe X-ray spectrometric detector

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 58, Issue 5 PART 2, 2011, Pages 2371-2377

  Rinkel, Jean ^a   Beldjoudi, Guillaume ^a   Rebuffel, Véronique ^a   Boudou, Caroline ^b   Ouvrier Buffet, Patrice ^a   Gonon, Georges ^a   Verger, Loïck ^a   Brambilla, Andrea ^a  

^a CEA LETI   (France)

^b MULTIX   (France)

Author keywords

Explosives; multidimensional signal processing; security; spectrometry; X ray detectors

Indexed keywords

CDTE; COUNT RATES; DETECTOR ENERGY; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FALSE DETECTIONS; LINEAR ARRAYS; MATERIAL IDENTIFICATION; MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PIXEL DETECTOR; SECURITY; SPECTROMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; X-RAY DETECTOR;

CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; READOUT SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROMETRY;

DETECTORS;

EID: 80054064115     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2164266     Document Type: Article

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