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Title: Radioactive Threat Detection with Scattering Physics: A Model-Based Application

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The detection of radioactive contraband is a critical problem in maintaining national security for any country. Emissions from threat materials challenge both detection and measurement technologies especially when concealed by various types of shielding complicating the transport physics significantly. The development of a model-based sequential Bayesian processor that captures both the underlying transport physics including scattering offers a physics-based approach to attack this challenging problem. It is shown that this processor can be used to develop an effective detection technique.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
986619
Report Number(s):
LLNL-CONF-423209; TRN: US1006389
Resource Relation:
Conference: Presented at: IAPR/IEEE Conference on Cognitive Information Proceesing, Elba Island, Italy, Jun 14 - Jun 16, 2010
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English