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Published on: November 15, 2012
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1Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2.
Abstract:
Considerable progress has been recently made on using naturally occurring radiation in the form of muons and neutrinos in a wide range of applications. However, since the discovery of radioactivity, natural radiation has found a number of imaging applications in a variety of fields. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the many applications in which radiation emitted from naturally-occurring radioactive materials is used to image materials and structures, as well as to review the recent progress in cosmic-radiation imaging. It is hoped that this review will alert practitioners to the valuable information that can be readily obtained without the use of artificial sources, and to motivate researcher to develop and explore further applications.
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