• DocumentCode
    3287021
  • Title

    An H-L curve method for material discrimination of dual energy X-ray inspection systems

  • Author

    Zhang, Guowei ; Zhang, Li ; Chen, Zhiqiang

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Eng. Phys., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    23-29 Oct. 2005
  • Firstpage
    326
  • Lastpage
    328
  • Abstract
    An H-L (high and low energy transparencies) curve method is proposed for material recognition in dual energy X-ray inspection systems. Experiments on a series of common materials are conducted and demonstrate good performance in discrimination of practical objects. The concept of intrinsic difference between materials is introduced to quantitatively investigate the possibility of material recognition under a certain noise level. System design and evaluation can be facilitated by using this method
  • Keywords
    X-ray applications; nuclear materials safeguards; dual energy X-ray inspection systems; energy transparency curve method; material discrimination; material recognition; Attenuation; Conducting materials; Energy states; Explosives; Inspection; Noise level; Security; Terrorism; X-ray detection; X-ray detectors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2005 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Fajardo
  • ISSN
    1095-7863
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9221-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596263
  • Filename
    1596263