Ultralow-dose, feedback imaging with laser-Compton X-ray and laser-Compton gamma ray sources

Title: Ultralow-dose, feedback imaging with laser-Compton X-ray and laser-Compton gamma ray sources

Abstract

Ultralow-dose, x-ray or gamma-ray imaging is based on fast, electronic control of the output of a laser-Compton x-ray or gamma-ray source (LCXS or LCGS). X-ray or gamma-ray shadowgraphs are constructed one (or a few) pixel(s) at a time by monitoring the LCXS or LCGS beam energy required at each pixel of the object to achieve a threshold level of detectability at the detector. An example provides that once the threshold for detection is reached, an electronic or optical signal is sent to the LCXS/LCGS that enables a fast optical switch that diverts, either in space or time the laser pulses used to create Compton photons. In this way, one prevents the object from being exposed to any further Compton x-rays or gamma-rays until either the laser-Compton beam or the object are moved so that a new pixel location may be illumination.

Inventors:: Barty, Christopher P. J.

Issue Date:: 2018-05-29

Research Org.:: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1453045

Patent Number(s):: 9,983,151

Application Number:: 15/320,047

Assignee:: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, CA)

DOE Contract Number:: AC52-07NA27344

Resource Type:: Patent

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2015 May 07

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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  title        = {Ultralow-dose, feedback imaging with laser-Compton X-ray and laser-Compton gamma ray sources},

  author       = {Barty, Christopher P. J.},

  abstractNote = {Ultralow-dose, x-ray or gamma-ray imaging is based on fast, electronic control of the output of a laser-Compton x-ray or gamma-ray source (LCXS or LCGS). X-ray or gamma-ray shadowgraphs are constructed one (or a few) pixel(s) at a time by monitoring the LCXS or LCGS beam energy required at each pixel of the object to achieve a threshold level of detectability at the detector. An example provides that once the threshold for detection is reached, an electronic or optical signal is sent to the LCXS/LCGS that enables a fast optical switch that diverts, either in space or time the laser pulses used to create Compton photons. In this way, one prevents the object from being exposed to any further Compton x-rays or gamma-rays until either the laser-Compton beam or the object are moved so that a new pixel location may be illumination.},

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  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2018},

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US Patent Document 14/280272; 20140328457
URL: http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220140328457%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20140328457&RS=DN/20140328457

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Transmission-based detection of nuclides with nuclear resonance fluorescence using a quasimonoenergetic photon source
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Extreme Light Infrastructure: nuclear physics
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SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics
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Applications Of Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence Of Gamma Rays To Elemental Analysis
patent, December 1973

Compensation for Patient Thickness Variations in Differential X-Ray Transmission Imaging
patent, December 1974

Method and apparatus for producing X-rays
patent, July 1986

Gamma-gamma resonance in activation analysis, and particularly, its application to detection of nitrogen based explosives in luggage
patent, August 1991

Explosives detection using resonance fluorescence of bremsstrahlung radiation
patent, May 1992

Tunable source of monochromatic, highly-directional x-rays and a method for producing such radiation
patent, September 1993

Nuclear resonances in activation analysis, and particularly, its application to detection of nitrogen based explosives in luggage
patent, March 1994

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patent, June 1994

Laser synchrotron source (LSS)
patent, October 1994

Detection of explosives and other materials using resonance fluorescence, resonance absorption, and other electromagnetic processes with bremsstrahlung radiation
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