Physical Optics Corporation

Keith Shoemaker

Tomasz P Jannson

Edward Matthew Patton

Victor Grubsky

Volodymyr Romanoov

Paul I Shnitser

Gennady Medvedkin

A Compton tomography system comprises an x-ray source configured to produce a planar x-ray beam. The beam irradiates a slice of an object to be imaged, producing Compton-scattered x-rays. The Compton-scattered x-rays are imaged by an x-ray camera. Translation of the object with respect to the source and camera or vice versa allows three-dimensional object imaging.

Compton tomography system

The present invention provides systems and methods for x-ray imaging. In some embodiments, an aperture, or a plurality thereof, are configured to have image transfer functions lacking a zero within a usable spatial frequency range. In further embodiments, the image transfer function is determined according to the shape of the aperture and the usable spatial frequency range is determined according to a usable signal to noise ratio.

X-ray imaging system and method

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Keith Shoemaker