HIGH ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
Assignee
AMERICAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, INC., A CORP OF MA
Filed
Mar 14, 1984
Granted
Sep 1, 1987
Location
Arlington VA (defense contractors)
Abstract
Computerized axial tomography is employed with respect to large relatively dense objects such as a solid fuel rocket engine. High energy X-rays, such as a 15 MeV source is used. To develop clean images, a collimator is employed with a relatively minute acceptance angle. Acceptance angles on the order to 1°, and in a preferred embodiment 7 minutes of a degree, are used. In a preferred embodiment, the collimator may be located between the object and the detector, although in other embodiments, a pre-collimator may also be used, that is between the X-ray source and the object being illuminated.
Source: Google Patents
35 USC §181 Secrecy Order
Imposed
Apr 8, 1985
Rescinded
Dec 23, 1986
Duration
1 year, 8 months
Inventor
- 1PAUL BURSTEIN
Sensitive facility: Arlington VA (defense contractors)
Record Details
- Patent number
- US 4691332
- Application
- 06589443
- Aerospace match
- Yes
- Dataset source
- 35 USC §181 SO records
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