System for phase-contrast x-ray radiography using X pinch radiation and a method thereof

Patent · 06 November 2007

OSTI ID:919844

Chandler, Katherine ^[1]; Chelkovenko, Tatiana ^[2]; Hammer, David ^[1]; Pikuz, Sergei ^[2]; Sinars, Daniel ^[3]; Song, Byungmoo ^[1]

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1. Ithaca, NY
2. Moscow, RU
3. Albuquerque, NM

A radiograph system with an anode plate, a cathode plate, and a power source coupled to said anode plate and the cathode plate. At least two wires coupled between the anode plate and the cathode plate provide a configuration to form an X-pinch having a photon source size of less than five microns at energies above 2.5 keV. Material at the configuration forming the X-pinch vaporizes upon application of a suitable current to the wires forming a dense hot plasma and emitting a single x-ray pulse with sufficient photons having energies in the range of from about 2.5 keV to about 20 keV to provide a phase contrast image of an object in the path of the photons. Multiple simultaneous images may be formed of a plurality of objects. Suitable filters and x-ray detectors are provided.

• Research Organization: Cornell University
• Sponsoring Organization: United States Department of Energy
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-98ER54496
• Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): 7,292,676
• Application Number: 11/215,200
• OSTI ID: 919844
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English