Recent progress in single-sided gamma-ray tomography

Robert S. Thoe

doi:10.1117/12.179958

22 July 1994 Recent progress in single-sided gamma-ray tomography

Robert S. Thoe

Proceedings Volume 2217, Aerial Surveillance Sensing Including Obscured and Underground Object Detection; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.179958
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1994, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The use of scattered radiation for radiography has many potential advantages over conventional projection techniques: for high energy photons the scattering process strongly dominates all other processes. The intensity of scattered radiation is due directly to the electron density and highly insensitive to chemical composition. Finally, the use of scattered radiation allows the investigator to position the radiation source on the same side of the object as the detector. In this paper I will present some recent results of a set of measurements made with our uncollimated Compton backscattering tomography apparatus. This technique uses the Compton energy shift of scattered gamma rays to determine the scattering site. By measuring the spectrum of these scattered gamma rays it is then possible to determine the electron density of the object being investigated. I will give a brief description of the apparatus and present the results of numerous measurements made on a brass phantom with voids placed at various depths. These results imply that for this crude apparatus occlusions as small as one cubic millimeter may be located to an accuracy of about one millimeter at depths of about 15 millimeters in solid brass.

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Robert S. Thoe "Recent progress in single-sided gamma-ray tomography", Proc. SPIE 2217, Aerial Surveillance Sensing Including Obscured and Underground Object Detection, (22 July 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.179958

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