Understanding reliability and some limitations of the images and spectra reconstructed from a multi-monochromatic x-ray imager
Abstract
Temperature and density asymmetry diagnosis is critical to advance inertial confinement fusion (ICF) science. A multi-monochromatic x-ray imager (MMI) is an attractive diagnostic for this purpose. The MMI records the spectral signature from an ICF implosion core with time resolution, 2-D space resolution, and spectral resolution. While narrow-band images and 2-D space-resolved spectra from the MMI data constrain temperature and density spatial structure of the core, the accuracy of the images and spectra depends not only on the quality of the MMI data but also on the reliability of the post-processing tools. In this paper, we synthetically quantify the accuracy of images and spectra reconstructed from MMI data. Errors in the reconstructed images are less than a few percent when the space-resolution effect is applied to the modeled images. The errors in the reconstructed 2-D space-resolved spectra are also less than a few percent except those for the peripheral regions. Spectra reconstructed for the peripheral regions have slightly but systematically lower intensities by ~6% due to the instrumental spatial-resolution effects. However, this does not alter the relative line ratios and widths and thus does not affect the temperature and density diagnostics. We also investigate the impact of the pinhole sizemore »
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV (United States). Physics Dept.
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). Physics Dept.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1259768
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1226395
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-JRNL-688359
Journal ID: ISSN 0034-6748
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344; NA0000859; NA0002267
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Review of Scientific Instruments
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 86; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 0034-6748
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; image reconstruction; inertial confinement; spatial resolution; brightness; medical image reconstruction
Citation Formats
Nagayama, T., Mancini, R. C., Mayes, D., Tommasini, R., and Florido, R. Understanding reliability and some limitations of the images and spectra reconstructed from a multi-monochromatic x-ray imager. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4935828.
Nagayama, T., Mancini, R. C., Mayes, D., Tommasini, R., & Florido, R. Understanding reliability and some limitations of the images and spectra reconstructed from a multi-monochromatic x-ray imager. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935828
Nagayama, T., Mancini, R. C., Mayes, D., Tommasini, R., and Florido, R. Wed .
"Understanding reliability and some limitations of the images and spectra reconstructed from a multi-monochromatic x-ray imager". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935828. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1259768.
@article{osti_1259768,
title = {Understanding reliability and some limitations of the images and spectra reconstructed from a multi-monochromatic x-ray imager},
author = {Nagayama, T. and Mancini, R. C. and Mayes, D. and Tommasini, R. and Florido, R.},
abstractNote = {Temperature and density asymmetry diagnosis is critical to advance inertial confinement fusion (ICF) science. A multi-monochromatic x-ray imager (MMI) is an attractive diagnostic for this purpose. The MMI records the spectral signature from an ICF implosion core with time resolution, 2-D space resolution, and spectral resolution. While narrow-band images and 2-D space-resolved spectra from the MMI data constrain temperature and density spatial structure of the core, the accuracy of the images and spectra depends not only on the quality of the MMI data but also on the reliability of the post-processing tools. In this paper, we synthetically quantify the accuracy of images and spectra reconstructed from MMI data. Errors in the reconstructed images are less than a few percent when the space-resolution effect is applied to the modeled images. The errors in the reconstructed 2-D space-resolved spectra are also less than a few percent except those for the peripheral regions. Spectra reconstructed for the peripheral regions have slightly but systematically lower intensities by ~6% due to the instrumental spatial-resolution effects. However, this does not alter the relative line ratios and widths and thus does not affect the temperature and density diagnostics. We also investigate the impact of the pinhole size variation on the extracted images and spectra. A 10% pinhole size variation could introduce spatial bias to the images and spectra of ~10%. A correction algorithm is developed, and it successfully reduces the errors to a few percent. Finally, it is desirable to perform similar synthetic investigations to fully understand the reliability and limitations of each MMI application.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4935828},
journal = {Review of Scientific Instruments},
number = 11,
volume = 86,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}
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