Three-dimensional imaging system using laser generated ultrashort x-ray pulses

摘要

An apparatus for imaging the interior of an object illuminates the object with a source of picosecond collimated x-ray pulses. An array of x-ray detectors senses pulses of Compton scattered x-rays from the object and a processor accumulates the data to construct an image of the object by accumulating data from ellipsoidal sections of the object.