An optimised method for material identification using a photon counting detector

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 663, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 26-36

  Beldjoudi, Guillaume ^a   Rebuffel, Véronique ^a   Verger, Loïck ^a   Kaftandjian, Valérie ^b   Rinkel, Jean ^a  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Material identification; Material recognition; Multi energy data processing methods; Photon counting detectors; Spectral analysis; Spectrometers; X rays radiography

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; PHOTONS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

DATA PROCESSING METHODS; INTEGRATING SYSTEMS; MATERIAL IDENTIFICATION; MATERIAL RECOGNITION; MATERIAL THICKNESS; MULTI ENERGY; PHOTON COUNTING DETECTORS; X-RAY PHOTON COUNTING;

X RAY DETECTORS;

EID: 81955164738     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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