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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2005
Larry G. Blackwood, Idaho Falls, ID (US);
Andrew J. Edwards, Idaho Falls, ID (US);
James K. Jewell, Idaho Falls, ID (US);
Edward L. Reber, Idaho Falls, ID (US);
Edward H. Seabury, Idaho Falls, ID (US);
Larry G. Blackwood, Idaho Falls, ID (US);
Andrew J. Edwards, Idaho Falls, ID (US);
James K. Jewell, Idaho Falls, ID (US);
Edward L. Reber, Idaho Falls, ID (US);
Edward H. Seabury, Idaho Falls, ID (US);
Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC, Idaho Falls, ID (US);
Abstract
A method for detecting an element is described and which includes the steps of providing a gamma-ray spectrum which has a region of interest which corresponds with a small amount of an element to be detected; providing nonparametric assumptions about a shape of the gamma-ray spectrum in the region of interest, and which would indicate the presence of the element to be detected; and applying a statistical test to the shape of the gamma-ray spectrum based upon the nonparametric assumptions to detect the small amount of the element to be detected.