Free-moving quantitative gamma-ray imaging

D Hellfeld, MS Bandstra, JR Vavrek, DL Gunter… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The ability to map and estimate the activity of radiological source distributions in unknown
three-dimensional environments has applications in the prevention and response to …

3-d object tracking in panoramic video and lidar for radiological source–object attribution and improved source detection

MR Marshall, D Hellfeld, THY Joshi… - … on Nuclear Science, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Networked detector systems can be deployed in urban environments to aid in the detection
and localization of radiological and/or nuclear material. However, effectively responding to …

Tetris-inspired detector with neural network for radiation mapping

R Okabe, S Xue, JR Vavrek, J Yu, R Pavlovsky… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Radiation mapping has attracted widespread research attention and increased public
concerns on environmental monitoring. Regarding materials and their configurations …

Improved gamma-ray point source quantification in three dimensions by modeling attenuation in the scene

MS Bandstra, D Hellfeld, JR Vavrek… - … on Nuclear Science, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Using a series of detector measurements taken at different locations to localize a source of
radiation is a well-studied problem. The source of radiation is sometimes constrained to a …

Polaris-lamp: Multi-modal 3-d image reconstruction with a commercial gamma-ray imager

J Hecla, K Knecht, D Gunter, A Haefner… - … on Nuclear Science, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Polaris-LAMP multi-modal 3-D gamma-ray imager is a radiation mapping and imaging
platform which uses a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) detector integrated with a contextual …

Real-Time Radiological Source Term Estimation for Multiple Sources in Cluttered Environments

S Kemp, S Kumar, C Bakker… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A particle filter algorithm is presented to estimate the position, strength, and cardinality of an
unknown number of radioactive point sources in an obstacle-rich environment using count …

[HTML][HTML] Forward calculation of airborne gamma 3D radiation fields based on rapid coupling method of point kernel integrals

P Cheng, S Qi, X Guan, X Wei, F Li, G Zeng - Journal of Environmental …, 2025 - Elsevier
Airborne gamma ray spectrum detection technology is an effective means to measure the
concentration and spatial distribution of natural radionuclides in environmental media such …

[HTML][HTML] Localizing multiple radiation sources actively with a particle filter

T Lazna, L Zalud - Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
We discuss the localization of radiation sources whose number and other relevant
parameters are not known in advance. The data collection is ensured by an autonomous …

[HTML][HTML] A two-dimensional array detector for determining the direction to gamma-ray source

Q Zhao, Z Wang, L Li, X Li, C Zhao, M Zhao, F Li… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2022 - Elsevier
With increasing demand in the nuclear technology field for locating isolated radioactive
sources, numerous studies have focused on the array detector. Given the concerns over the …

Mapping the minimum detectable activities of gamma-ray sources in a 3-d scene

MS Bandstra, D Hellfeld, J Lee… - … on Nuclear Science, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability to formulate maps of minimum detectable activities (MDAs) that describe the
sensitivity of an ad hoc measurement that used one or more freely moving radiation detector …