Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1879690 | Applied Radiation and Isotopes | 2007 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Energy dispersive X-ray diffraction is proposed as a suitable non-destructive method to rapidly identify illicit drugs in parcels. A preliminary data set of 7 illicit drug samples and a possible cutting agent has been collected with a range of count times using a tungsten target X-ray source, a high resolution HpGe detector and a variable geometry diffraction cell. These results have been used to calibrate and train multivariate analysis software to predict the drug content in previously unseen spectra.
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Authors
Emily Cook, Ruby Fong, Julie Horrocks, David Wilkinson, Robert Speller,