Multiple emission line analysis for improved isotopic determination of uranium - A computer simulation study

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 89, Issue , 2013, Pages 40-49

  Chan, George C Y ^a   Mao, Xianglei ^a   Choi, Inhee ^a   Sarkar, Arnab ^a,b   Lam, Oanh P ^a   Shuh, David K ^a   Russo, Richard E ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Isotopic analysis; Isotopic splitting; Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy; Partial least square; Uranium

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL ESTIMATIONS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC SPLITTING; LASERINDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY (LIBS); MULTIVARIATE CALIBRATION; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERROR OF PREDICTIONS; SIGNAL-TO-BACKGROUND RATIO;

ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ISOTOPES; LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; URANIUM;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84885111097     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2013.09.001     Document Type: Article

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