Calvert, N;
Betcke, MM;
Deacon, AN;
Gleeson, AJ;
Hill, C;
McIntosh, PA;
Mitchell, LO;
... Speller, RD; + view all
(2014)
Feasibility Study of Time-of-Flight Compton Scatter Imaging Using Picosecond Length X-Ray Pulses.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE
, 61
(6)
pp. 3701-3710.
10.1109/TNS.2014.2367239.
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Abstract
By measuring the time of flight of scattered X-ray photons, the point of interaction, assuming a single scatter, can be determined, providing 3-D information about an object under inspection. This paper describes experimental ToF Compton scatter measurements conducted at the versatile electron linear accelerator (VELA), a picosecond pulsewidth electron source situated in Daresbury, U.K. The ToF of scattered X-ray photons was measured using a CeBr3 detector, and a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of between 29 and 36 cm was achieved with a 5-cm-thick plastic test object. By implementing a low-energy cutoff, the FWHM was reduced to between 12 and 26 cm. Two test objects placed in series with a 50-cm space between were separable in the data after applying the low energy cutoff.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Feasibility Study of Time-of-Flight Compton Scatter Imaging Using Picosecond Length X-Ray Pulses |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/TNS.2014.2367239 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org10.1109/TNS.2014.2367239 |
| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | Cargo security, time of flight (ToF), X-ray scattering |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1468797 |
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