Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Method for producing three-dimensional real image using radiographic perspective views of an object

Patent ·
OSTI ID:862469

A sequence of separate radiographs are made by indexing a radiation source along a known path relative to the object under study. Thus, each radiograph contains information from a different perspective. A holographically-recorded image is then made from each radiographic perspective by exact re-tracing of the rays through each radiographic perspective such that the re-tracing duplicates the geometry under which it was originally prepared. The holographically-stored images are simultaneously illuminated with the conjugate of the reference beam used in the original recordings. The result is the generation of a three-dimensional real image of the object such that a light-sensitive device can be moved to view the real image along any desired surface with the optical information in all other surfaces greatly suppressed.

Research Organization:
Ames Laboratory (AMES), Ames, IA
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-82
Assignee:
Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, IA)
Patent Number(s):
US 3940619
OSTI ID:
862469
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English