Novel approach to the Rayleigh-to-Compton method: Wavelength dispersive tomography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3149, Issue , 1997, Pages 177-185

  Kleuker, Ulf ^a   Schulze Briese, Clemens ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coherent scattering; Non destructive material testing; Rayleigh to Compton method; Tomography; X ray instrumentation

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; ATOMS; COMPTON SCATTERING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; GEOMETRY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INSTRUMENTS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LUMINESCENCE; MATERIALS; MESH GENERATION; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NEUTRON DETECTORS; SCATTERING; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; TOMOGRAPHY;

COHERENT SCATTERING; CT METHOD; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; FIRST GENERATION (1G); FORWARD SCATTERING; HIGH FLUX; LAUE GEOMETRY; LOW Z MATERIALS; MATERIAL SCIENCES; NOISE RATIOS; NON-DESTRUCTIVE MATERIAL TESTING; NOVE L APPROACH; RAYLEIGH-TO-COMPTON METHOD; REGRESSION CALIBRATION (RC) METHOD; SCATTERING GEOMETRIES; SCINTILLATION DETECTOR; SIDE EFFECTS; SQUARE IMAGE; WAVELENGTH DISPERSIVE; WIDE-RANGE; X-RAY INSTRUMENTATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0040418153     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.292720     Document Type: Conference Paper

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