Compton imaging tomography technique for NDE of large nonuniform structures

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8144, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Grubsky, Victor ^a   Romanov, Volodymyr ^a   Patton, Ned ^a   Jannson, Tomasz ^a  

^a PHYSICAL OPTICS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Compton scattering; nondestructive testing; tomography; X ray

Indexed keywords

COMPTON IMAGING; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-SITU; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; LOW CONTRAST; NON DESTRUCTIVE TESTING; NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION TECHNIQUES; NONUNIFORM STRUCTURE; ORGANICS; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY IMAGE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; X RAYS;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 80055044801     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.894059     Document Type: Conference Paper

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