LABORATORY FOR THREAT-MATERIAL DETECTION
		University of New Brunswick, Fredericton
	15 Dineen Drive · Room C128, Gillin Hall (UNB) · Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3 Phone: (506) 447-3421 · Fax: (506) 453-5025 · E-mail: LTMD@unb.ca
FUNDED PROJECTS SOURCES OF FUNDING EXPLORATORY PROJECTS AVAILABLE RESOURCES SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS REVIEW PAPERS BOOKS USEFUL LINKS FACULTY, STAFF AND GRADUATE STUDENTS		The Laboratory for Threat-Material Detection (LTMD) was established at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) in Fredericton, NB, for the purpose of developing new technology for detecting materials that represent a threat to security, safety, health and the environment. Some examples are: landmines, explosives, drugs and contraband concealed in luggage and cargo, unexploded ordnance, etc. LTMD aims at facilitating the production, manufacturing and marketing of the developed technology. FUNDED PROJECTS One-Side Three-Dimensional Emission Imaging Deep Backscatter Tomography with Gamma-Rays Imaging of Pallet-Sized Cargo Containers Optimized Region-of-Interest Imaging Techniques for Measurement of Spatial and Temporal variations in Diffusive and Reactive Transport Properties of Sedimentary Rocks Detection of Concealed Radioactive Sources MicroCT imaging: The Institute for Materials Visualization and Analysis. SOURCES OF FUNDING Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Canada Border Services Agency (Scientific Laboratory) Department of National Defence, Canada Atlantic Foundation for Innovation Springboard Atlantic Inc. New Brunswick Innovation Foundation EXPLORATORY PROJECTS Landmine Detection with Neutron/Gamma-Ray Scattering Non-Rotating Imaging of Pallet-Sized Cargo with Gamma-Rays Detection of Illicit Materials in Small Parcels with Isotopic Neutrons Detection of Buried Metallic Shell-Cases with Ultrasonics
		AVAILABLE RESOURCES Licensed Radiation Laboratory Equipped with Radiation Survey Equipment Micro CT. Radiation Transport Codes: Point-Kernel, Discrete Ordinates and Monte Carlo 420 KV, 10 mA X-ray machine 300 KV, 6 mA X-ray machine Gamma Sources: Cobalt-60 and Cesium-137 Neutron Sources: Californium-252 and Americium-Beryllium Photon Detectors: HPGe, NaI(T1), CsI(T1), BGO and CdWO4 Neutron Detectors: He-3, BF3, Li-6 Glass Scintillator, Proton-Recoil Proportional Counter, NE-213 Liquid Scintillator Ultrasonic and Eddy Current Equipment Counting Electronics, MCA's and an Automated Rectilinear Scanner BOOKS Hussein, E.M.A, Computed Radiation Imaging:  Physics and Mathematics of Forward and Inverse Problems,  Elsevier, Amsterdam, ISBN 978-0123877772, 300 pages, June 2011. Hussein, E.M.A., Radiation Mechanics: Principles Practice, Elsevier, Oxford, ISBN 978-0-0804-5053-7, 322 pages, Sept. 2007; Click here for an Overview, Table of Contents. Hussein, E.M.A., Handbook on Radiation Probing, Gauging, Imaging and Analysis, Volume I: Basics and Techniques, Kluwer Academic Publishers,  ISBN 1-4020-1294-2, June 2003, 464 pages, May 2003; Click here for an Overview, Table of Contents, Reviews, Errata, On-line Sellers and Problems.  Hussein, E.M.A., Handbook on Radiation Probing, Gauging, Imaging and Analysis,  Volume II: Applications and Design, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-1295-0, 526 pages, May 2003; Click here for an Overview, Table of Contents, Reviews, Errata, On-line Sellers and Problems. REVIEW PAPERS Detection and Characterization of Threat Materials Radiological Imaging to The Third Degree Landmine Detection: The Problem and the Challenge COURSE NOTES · Monte Carlo Particle Transport with the MCNP Code · Nondestructive Testing SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS Charles, E., Hussein, E.M.A. and Desrosiers, M., "One-Side Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction   of Radioactive Contamination”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 58, pp. 516 - 526, 2011. Subudhi, R. K., Hussein, E.M.A.,_and Al T. A., “Measurement of spatial distribution of total and accessible porosity in sedimentary rocks using isotopic radiation transmission: Device design and testing”, Vol. 68, pp. 496–504, 2010. Yaar, I.; Peysakhov, I.; Hussein, E.M.A., “Passive Detection and Identification of a Concealed ^241Am Source in Transport”, Packaging, Transport, Storage and Security of Radioactive Material, Vol. 19, pp. 189-196, 2008. Hussein E.M.A , Bowles, T.C., ”Expanding the Domain of Contraction Mapping in the Inverse Problem of Imaging with Incoherently Scattered Radiation”, Inverse Problems, Vol. 23,. pp. 1289-1309, 2007 (http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0266-5611/23/3/026/). Hussein, E.M.A., “On the Intricacy of Imaging with Incoherently-Scattered Radiation”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, Vol. 263, pp. 27-31, 2007 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2007.04.037). Myers, J. and Hussein, E.M.A., “Natural Beta Emission for Detecting Concealed Tobacco in Parcels”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, Vol. 263, pp. 214-216, 2007 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2007.04.087). Mercer, J.A., Hussein, E.M.A. and Waller, E.J., “A Non-intrusive Neutron Device for In-situ Detection of Petroleum Contamination in Soil”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, Vol. 263, pp. 217-220, 2007 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2007.04.088). Hussein E.M.A , “On the Intricacy of Imaging with Incoherently-Scattered Radiation”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, in press (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2007.04.037). Myers, J. and Hussein E.M.A , “Natural Beta Emission for Detecting Concealed Tobacco in Parcels”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research}, in press (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2007.04.087). Mercer, J.A., Hussein E.M.A and Waller, E.J., “A Non-intrusive Neutron Device for In-situ Detection of Petroleum Contamination in Soil”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, in press (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2007.04.088). Thangavelu, S. and Hussein E.M.A , “Flaw Detection by Spatially Coded Backscatter Radiography”, Applied Radiation and Isotopes, vol. 65, pp. 189-198, 2007. Arsenault, P.J. and Hussein, E.M.A., “Image Reconstruction from the Compton Scattering of X-ray Fan Beams in Thick/Dense Objects”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 53, pp. 1622-1633, 2006. Hussein, E.M.A., “On the Non-Intrusive Measurement of Density at a Poin”, Acta Physica et Chimica Debrecina, Vol. XXXVIII-XXXIX, pp. 195-205, Dec. 2005. Van Wart, J.A., Waller, E.J. and Hussein, E.M.A., “Detection and Localization of Money Bills Concealed Behind Wooden Walls Using Compton Scattering”, Nuclear Technology, Vol. 150, pp. 196-202, 2005. Buell, J.R., Byskal, D.P., Desrosiers, M.R., Hussein, E.M.A., Ingham P.J. and Swartz R.S., “A Neutron Scattereometer for Void-fraction Measurement in Heated Rod-bundle Channels under CANDU LOCA Conditions”, International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Vol. 31 pp. 452-472, 2005. Hussein, E.M.A., Desrosiers, M. and Waller, E.J, “On the use of radiation scattering for the detection of landmines”, Radiation in Physics and Chemistry, Vol. 73, pp. 7-19, 2005. Yaar, I. and Hussein, E.M.A., “Passive Detection of Concealed ^90Sr Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators in Transport”, Packaging, Transport, Storage and Security of Radioactive Material, Vol. 15, pp. 149-154, 2004. El Khettabi, F., Hussein E.M.A. and Jama H.A., “A Nonrotating Multiparameter 3-D X-ray Imaging System. Part I: Modeling and Reconstruction", IEEE Transaction on Nuclear Science: Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences, Vol. 51, pp. 641-647, 2004. Jama H.A., Hussein, E.M.A. and El Khettabi, F., “A Nonrotating Multiparameter 3-D X-ray Imaging System. Part II: Design and Experiments”, IEEE Transaction on Nuclear Science Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences, in press Vol. 51, pp. 648-658, 2004. Tang, S.-S. and Hussein, E.M.A., “Use of isotopic gamma sources for identifying anti-personnel landmines”, Applied Radiation and Isotopes, Vol. 61, pp. 3-10, 2004. Achmad, B. and Hussein, E.M.A., “An X-Ray Compton Scatter Method for Density Measurement at a Point within an Object” Applied Radiation and Isotopes, Vol. 60, No. 6, pp. 805-814, 2004. El Khettabi, F., Yaar, I. and Hussein, E.M.A., “ A 3D X-Ray Scattering System for Multi-Parameter Imaging of the Human Head”, Medical Physics, Vol. 48, pp. 3445-3458, 2003. El Khettabi, F.  and Hussein, E. M. A., “An inverse problem for three-dimensional x-ray scatter/transmission imaging”, Inverse Problems, Vol. 19, pp.447-495, April 2003. Hussein, E.M.A. and Waller, E.J., “Landmine Detection: The Problem and the Challenge”, Applied Radiation and Isotopes, Vol. 53, pp. 557-563, 2000. Ho, A. and Hussein, E.M.A., “Quantification of Gamma-Ray Compton Scatter Nondestructive Testing”, Applied Radiation and Isotopes, Vol. 53, pp. 541-546, 2000. Busono, P. and Hussein, E.M.A., "Algorithms for Density and Composition-discrimination Imaging for Fourth Generation CT Systems", Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 44, pp. 1455 - 1477, 1999. Sylvia Fedoruk Award  Busono, P. and Hussein, E.M.A., "Combined Transmission/Scatter X-ray Tomography for Material Identification", Journal of the Nuclear Society of Thailand, Vol. 1, pp. 9-23, 1998, (invited for publication in inauguration issue). Hussein, E.M.A. and Waller, E.J., “Review of One-Side Approaches to Radiographic Imaging for Detection of Explosives and Narcotics”, Radiation Measurements, Vol. 29, No. 6, pp. 581-591, 1998. Jama, H.A. and Hussein E.M.A., "Design Aspects of a Gamma-Ray Energy-Spectral Compton-Scatter Nondestructive Testing Method, Applied Radiation & Isotopes, Vol. 50, pp. 331-342, 1998. Jama, H.A., Hussein E.M.A. and Lee-Sullivan, P., "Detection of Debonding in Composite-Aluminum Joints Using Gamma-Ray Compton Scattering", NDT & International, Vol. 31, pp. 99-103, 1998. Taylor, D.C., Hussein, E.M.A. and Yuen, P.S., "Skin-Dose from Radionuclide Contamination on Clothing", Health Physics, Vol. 72, No. 6, pp. 835-841, 1997. Gokhale, P. and Hussein, E.M.A., "A Californium-252 Neutron Transmission Technique for Detection of Explosives", Applied Radiation and Isotopes, Vol. 48, pp. 973-979, 1997. Hussein, E.M.A. and Ingham, P.J., "Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques for Multiphase Flow: The State-of-the-Art", ASME Int. Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Dallas, Texas, Proc. of the ASME Fluid Engineering Divisions, FED-Vol. 244, pp. 347-356, November 1997 (invited).
		SPIN-OFF Inverssa System Ltd. USEFUL LINKS Landmine Sites: DeTeC - Demining Technology Centre at the EPFL Landmines Struggle Center (Egypt) Mines Action Canada UNICEF Radiation Detectors: Saint Gobain Crystals Amptek BSI - Baltic Scientific Instruments CSP-VINITI Exploranium GE Power Systems LND, Inc. Rad Elec Inc. SCE - Stirling Cryogenic Engineering GmbH Radiation Sources: Frontier Technology Corp. Isotope Products Laboratories Others: Table of Physical Constants Periodic Table EnvironmentalChemistry.com: Periodic Table of Elements Research and Industrial Uses of Various Elements The WISE Uranium Project Calculators! Isotope Explorer National Nuclear Data Center XCOM Photon Cross Sections X-Ray Data Booklet Health Protection Agency The Physics of Radiology Radiation Science Whitehouse Drug Policy International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Scientific and Technological Trends Security FACULTY, STAFF, ASSOCIATES AND GRADUATE STUDENTS · Agbogun, Henry Mosimabale – Postdoctoral fellow · Attar, Hooyar - Graduate Student · Enjilela , Esmaeil - Graduate Student · Behl, Rishin - Graduate Student · Hussein, Esam M.A., PhD, PEng - Professor and LTMD Co-ordinator · Waller, Edward J., PhD, PEng, CHP - Adjunct Professor · Yaar, Ilan., Honorary Research Associate · Zhao, Hans, Graduate Student
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