We demonstrate a novel procedure to calibrate neutron detection systems commonly used in standard neutron radiography. This calibration allows determining the uncertainties due to Poisson-like neutron counting statistics for each individual pixel of a radiographic image. The obtained statistical errors are necessary in order to perform a correct quantitative analysis. This fast and convenient method is applied to data measured at the cold neutron radiography facility ICON at the Paul Scherrer Institute. Moreover, from the results the effective neutron flux at the beam line is determined.
@article{arxiv.1603.06849,
title = {Statistical Uncertainty in Quantitative Neutron Radiography},
author = {Florian M. Piegsa and Anders P. Kaestner and Aldo Antognini and Andreas Eggenberger and Klaus Kirch and Gunther Wichmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.06849},
year = {2017}
}