Staring/Focusing lobster-eye hard X-ray imaging for non-astronomical objects

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5922, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-11

  Gertsenshteyn, Michael ^a   Jannson, Tomasz ^a   Savant, Gajendra ^a  

^a PHYSICAL OPTICS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Compton Backscattering; Hard X ray; Lobster Eye X ray Focusing Optics

Indexed keywords

COMPTON BACKSCATTERING; HARD X-RAY; LOBSTER EYE X-RAY FOCUSING OPTICS;

ASTRONOMY; LENSES; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 31844431970     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.615505     Document Type: Conference Paper

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