Observation device, and cross-sectional image acquisition method

Abstract

An observation device includes a neutron emission device, a detection device, and a data processing device. The neutron emission device emits neutrons to an inspection object. The detection device detects exit neutrons from the inspection object at one set of detection positions in a peripheral direction around the inspection object, outside the inspection object, and measures the number of the detected exit neutrons for each of the detection positions. The data processing device generates reconstructed cross-sectional data by performing reconstruction processing based on the number of the detected exit neutrons at each of the one set of detection positions. The reconstructed cross-sectional data represent a two-dimensional distribution of a neutron reaction rate in an imaginary cross-section of the inspection object.

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