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Compton imaging for homeland security

Sweeney, 2014

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Sweeney A
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This work marks the first use of a fully digital trigger system and new CAEN V1724 digitisers to create a Compton camera from two semiconductor double sided strip detectors. The system was designed to be able to identify and locate gamma ray emitting radionuclide …
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