Imaging system for industrial equipment and process

An imaging system for industrial equipment using gamma-ray or X-ray profiling techniques and tomographic image reconstruction, comprising:

• (a) a radiation emission subsystem with at least one radiation source that emits radiation passing through an industrial equipment to be analyzed by imaging;
• (b) a radiation detection subsystem with at least one radiation detector, which detects the radiation energy emitted by the radiation emission subsystem that has passed through said industrial equipment;
• (c) processing and imaging means that receive and evaluate radiation samples detected by the radiation detection subsystem and generate a tomogram of an analyzed region,
• the system characterized in that processing and imaging means select the radiation samples detected with energy value within a range of values corresponding to a maximum defined scattering angle of the radiation emitted by the radiation source, and generates a tomographic reconstruction of images of the industrial equipment based on the selected radiation samples,
• wherein the range of energy values of the selected samples is defined as:
• E−THi≤EM≤E+THs
• wherein
• EM=measured sample energy;
• E=characteristic energy of the radiation source;
• and
• THi=lower energy variation limit, and
• TH5=upper energy variation limit.