Method of neutron tomography
AssigneeLancaster University Business Enterprises Limited
InventorsMalcolm Joyce, Stewart Agar, Edmund Colley, Miriam Colling, Joseph Dykes, Pheovos Kardasopoulos, Kate Mitton, Michael Aspinall
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Abstract
A method of obtaining neutron tomography images of a workpiece (201), by means of a neutron source (101) and a plurality of neutron detectors (107), where the neutron source is an isotopic source containing less than one gram of radioactive isotope(s); the workpiece is up to 300×300×300 mm in size; and measurements to generate at least one tomography image of a workpiece take one hour or less to obtain.
Claims10
A method of obtaining neutron tomography images of a workpiece, by means of a neutron source and a plurality of neutron detectors, where
- the neutron source is an isotopic source containing less than one gram of radioactive isotope(s);
- the workpiece is up to 300×300×300 mm in size;
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- measurements to generate at least one tomography image of a workpiece take one hour or less to obtain.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.