Large area imaging detector for long-range, passive detection of fissile material

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5 I, 2004, Pages 2238-2244

  Ziock, Klaus P ^a   Craig, William W ^a   Fabris, Lorenzo ^a   Lanza, Richard C ^b   Gallagher, Shawn ^b   Horn, Berthold K P ^b   Madden, Norm W ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coded aperture imager; Gamma ray detectors; Gamma ray imagers; Radiation source search

Indexed keywords

FISSION PRODUCTS; GAMMA RAYS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CODED APERTURE IMAGER; GAMMA-RAY DETECTORS; GAMMA-RAY IMAGERS; RADIATION SOURCE SEARCH;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 8344238357     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.836117     Document Type: Article

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