Large area imaging of hydrogenous materials using fast neutrons from a DD fusion generator
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Acknowledgments
We acknowledge the valued assistance of J. Reijonen and M. King of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This work was supported in part by the US National Science Foundation, Grant no. IIP-0724503, and US Department of Energy, Grant no. DE-FG02–04ER86177.
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